Word: maye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Needless to say, even a personal move may have institutional overtones. It is my own belief that the Deanship of this Faculty can and should rotate on a cycle somewhat shorter than that which makes sense for the deanships of either the professional schools of Harvard or, indeed, the major subdivisions of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences itself. However. I do not, at this point, wish to appear to be imposing, or hiding behind, any general theory of deanships or of their varying demands. Sufficient unto the case are the specifics thereof...
Academic fashions may fluctuate. Specific fields of study do, as we all know, rise or fall in relative popularity. But in the long run. I believe, our students simply will not let us abdicate our responsibility to teach, to argue, and let's face it, at times to be unpopular. If the Faculty is to recover its nerve, its clarity about and confidence in espousing the few, central values of a university, the students may have to pitch in and help. I believe they will...
...hear the other side-the representation to you of decisions taken by those same Governing Boards. On reflection, however. I feel sure that you will perceive in a high proportion of those very decisions solid evidence that the Faculty's views have been both recorded and valued. Whatever changes may come, in the endless remodeling of Harvard, there is no basis for assuming that the relationship in this area is one between adversaries; and there is nothing to be gained by trying to manufacture such an assumption...
...longest formal statement I have ever read to the Faculty. The consolation, if any is needed, is that it is also my last, at least from this chair. Of course, once I resume my place out there, on the other side of the footlights, who knows what may happen! It has been years since I've had the chance to second a motion...
...unclear how soon this definition might be confirmed. The Mayor's victory on Tuesday may only prove that he has won the battle to save himself, but is continuing to lose the war to save New York City. Many would say, as John Kenneth Galbraith suggests, that it is a war of fiscal survival. This is oversimplifying the situation to some degree, but perhaps not very much...