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...Waclaw Lednicki, distinguished scholar and critic who has just been appointed visiting lecturer, will be a valuable addition to Harvard's topnotch Slavic department. But his presence here raises two pertinent questions: (1) If Professor Ernest J. Simmons' appointment was terminated last year as an economy move, how can the University afford to import an expert to fill his shoes? And (2), since Slavic scholars don't grow on trees, what would have happened to the department if Professor Lednicki hadn't happened to be available...
...that as far as the Slavic department is concerned, the University is losing on the deal. The bulk of Simmons' work was in the English department, and for their share of his time the Slavic department annually footed a bill of about eight hundred dollars. And presumably Professor Lednicki will get paid at least three times this amount...
...left for a job in Washington; and the War Department sent five army officers to Harvard to get instruction in Russian, demanding a great deal of the time of one member of the small Slavic staff. The result was a scramble for another man which fortunately resulted in Professor Lednicki's appointment...
Correcting your story of last Thursday on Slavic courses for the current year, l should like to announce that Slavic 110 (Pushkin) will be taught by Professor Waclaw Lednicki, of the universities of Cracow and Brussels, the leading European Pushkin authority outside the Soviet Union, who is joining our staff this year as Visiting Lecturer. He will also give a number of lectures in Slavic 1, beside conducting Slavic 8 (a new course on the Russian novelists) and Slavic 12 (advanced Russian). I might also point out that the second half of Slavic l was taught last year...