Word: lednicki
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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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...
...Lednicki, recognized as one of the chief Polish authorities on Russian Literature, was teaching in Cracow when the Germans invaded his native land. Because he was out of the city when the Nazi legions swarmed into it he escaped the concentration camp which was the fate of most of his colleagues...
Besides some advanced Russian instruction. Lednicki will teach Slavic 8 (Russian Novelists) and Slavic 110 (Pushkin), both second semester half-courses, and will give occasional lectures in Slavic 1 (Introduction to Russian Literature and Culture). Most of these lectures will probably be on the nineteenth century...