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When Mark A. Peterson came to Cambridge in 1985 to become an assistant professor in the Government Department, John Jackson, a professor at the University of Michigan, advised the young scholar to write these words on a sheet of paper and tape it to his desk...
Jackson, who had spent seven years as a junior professor at Harvard before being denied tenure and accepting a position at Michigan, knew as well as anyone that Peterson's chances of promotion to a full professorship here were slight. Not because he wasn't a rising scholar in his field. Not because he couldn't teach. Not because his talent didn't match that of the luminaries in Harvard's Government Department...
...reason for Jackson's warning to Peterson was as simple--and as troubling--as this: Harvard very rarely tenures its own. And when it does, the University rewards only accomplished scholarship. It takes no account of teaching skills or the candidate's other contributions to the Harvard community--no matter how significant they...
...MARK A. PETERSON, the Henry laborer Jayne Associate Professor of Government, is a great teacher. In his course on the American presidency, Peterson has been rewarded with superb CUE Guide ratings from his students--as high as 4.6 on a five-point scale...
...veteran of rough and tumble during nine seasons with the Washington Capitals, shrugged it off. "There was a lot of holding and pulling us down, that's all." Gratuitous violence of the kind that has turned N.H.L. hockey into a spectacle sport is the last thing American coach Dave Peterson wants to see, he claims. "We're not trying to play an aggressive style," he says. "We have to stay out of the penalty...