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...December news article and in his letter to The Crimson (Jan. 12), Department of English chair Leo Damrosch has chosen repeatedly to invoke age as a factor in my tenure consideration. As much as I have appreciated Prof. Damrosch's strong support, I have found this discussion of age in a tenure case perplexing...
Being safely situated out-side Harvard, I feel at liberty to comment on a couple of suggestions made by English department chair Leo Damrosch in regard to the University's recent failure to tenure Prof. Jeffrey Masten. According to the Crimson's Dec. 10 article on the case, Damrosch speculates that Harvard must stint on granting tenure to English literature Faculty because the department is small, presumably meaning that it can accommodate only a choice few in its senior ranks. I have heard this argument before, and I am as bemused by it now as I was when...
...Prof. Bois reads from a new book, Formless: A User's Guide. Harvard Book Store, 1256 Mass...
Sometimes not responding to comments turns out worse than responding would have. Shrier recounts what happens if one does not talk to a prof about comments: "A friend of mine got comments on a paper and couldn't read a single one. Then the professor passed away. The moral of the story is that if you don't get it, ask! Now he'll never know what the professor thought of his paper...
...well-reviewed writer, though of only one book, and that short stories. But rather than agonize over their descent into professorial mediocrity, he and his colleagues, he decides, have "chosen, wisely perhaps, to be angry with each other rather than with ourselves." Wise enough. And when one addled prof goes off his medication and resumes cross-dressing, so is the counseling he receives: no pearls before...