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...Handlin, who is currently in San Diego, could not be reached for further comment despite repeated efforts...
History professors disagreed sharply in describing the tone of the discussion of summer stipends at the last Faculty meeting. Oscar Handlin, Pforzheimer University Professor and a senior Americanist, said earlier this week that the allocation of summer stipends did not arise as a serious issue for discussion at the last senior faculty meeting in the History department. He added he does not believe the summer stipend issue is "a major source of tension" in the department...
...Handlin described the money going to the tenured American history professors through the summer stipends as a "very small" part of the Warren Center budget. "Only one Europeanist [at the meeting] felt surly about the fact that no one had cut him into anything," Handlin said...
Senior faculty members in European history this week disagreed sharply with Handlin. "Some members of the department--certainly at least a half-dozen--expressed surprise and indignation at what emerged at that faculty meeting," one senior Europeanist said. "And that does not take account of the people that, though absent from the meeting, expressed similar sentiments later...
David S. Landes, Goelet Professor of French History, said yesterday, "Given the scope of Professor Handlin's indiscretion, I can well understand his desire to limit the damage...