Word: pattersons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...committee members--C. Clyde Ferguson, professor of Law; David Donald, Warren Professor of American History; Richard Freeman, professor of Economics; Orlando Patterson, professor of Sociology; and Eileen Southern, professor of Afro-American Studies and Music--will work first on developing a clear intellectual goal for the department, Ferguson says. Once the committee has agreed on what the intellectual thrust of the department should be--whether policy-oriented or primarily academic, for example--then the committee will find it easier to seek out scholars. "Getting a focus begins to tell you who you want, why you want them...
...Patterson agrees with Ferguson's assessment of the committee's goals, and adds that it will also be examining the department's curriculum, its teaching and its faculty quality in an effort to "bring the department in line with other Harvard departments." He notes that perhaps the most important task of the committee is to convince the Harvard community, especially its students, of the intellectual legitimacy of Afro-American Studies. "Students are acutely conscious of the fact that the study now has relatively little status, and have a right to be concerned," he notes...
...does Patterson mince words about the current problems of the department. "If a student leaves this University with a degree in Afro-American Studies, it should carry the same weight as any other degree at Harvard--and I suspect it doesn't now," he notes...
...years, the Library of Congress has incorrectly listed British Author Harry Patterson's first name as "Henry." Finally, one of his U.S. publishers, Stein & Day, asked the library to set the record straight. Replied Ben Tucker, Chief of the Office for Descriptive Cataloging Policy: "I wish to thank you for enabling us to improve our records." Henceforth, he said, the author would be listed not as Harry Patterson or even Henry Patterson but as "Jack Higgins," the pseudonym under which he wrote several bestselling thrillers, including The Eagle Has Landed, for a Stein competitor, Holt, Rinehart & Winston...
Tucker explained that under the abstruse cataloguing rules adopted by the library in 1967, authors are listed by the "name used predominantly" in their works, no matter what their real name may be. Stein has published two novel under the name Harry Patterson, while other U.S. publishing houses have produced at least 17 books by Jack Higgins Thus Stein lost the name game. Moreover, said Tucker, if Stein & Day did not go along with the verdict, the firm could be excluded from the library's cataloguing program. "The bureaucratic mind gone mad," sputtered Publisher Sol Stein in an angry...