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Knowles’ first step was to install Wolff, who says the department was “dysfunctional,” as Acting Chair in 1992. But Pearson professor of modern mathematics and mathematical logic Warren Goldfarb ’69 says that the department’s dire condition...
According to Goldfarb, Knowles appointed him that fall to chair a committee examining how—not whether—to dissolve the department and propose a new structure, most likely a committee. Moreover, Goldfarb says, Knowles did not consult the Faculty Council before appointing the committee.
Knowles now says that the committee did have the option to recommend that Linguistics maintain its departmental status. But at the time, Wolff told The Crimson “It is not the function of the committee to look into departmental reorganization… We have tried that.?...
“I quite consciously shook the bars of the cage,” Knowles says. “I knew exactly what I was doing.”
The announcement that a committee had been formed with the purpose of dissolving the department prompted tremendous opposition from both inside and outside Harvard. The department’s students formed the Harvard-Radcliffe Undergraduate Linguists Society, and Knowles received letters from linguists across the country. One concentrator, Joel L...