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DIED. Eric Partridge, 85, indefatigable English lexicographer and student of the language's quirks and conventions; in Devon, England. Born in New Zealand and educated in Australia and at Oxford, the tall, spare Partridge abandoned a budding career as an English professor (he feared he would become "a bloody bore") to devote himself to publishing and writing. Though he once turned out a novel in a month for his Scholartis Press in London, he gave up fiction to make a profession of his passion: the study of words. Over five decades, he compiled 16 erudite lexicons devoted to slang...
...again a university president must be a professor, or be at the mercy of professors...
Reginald R. Isaacs, Norton Professor of Regional Planning Emeritus and chairman of the department of CRP from 1953 to 1964, has persistently criticized Kilbridge's policies. He says Kilbridge resigned because he lost the confidence of the alumni and the Overseers. However, other observers within the department say Kilbridge received the strongest backing he has ever received in the last few years. Gerrald M. McCue, associate dean of the faculty of design, analyzed Kilbridge's departure, saying, "He's in a period of greater support than ever before. I suspect his motivation was to get out while he was ahead...
...subscriber to more traditional planning ideas, Francois C. Vigier, professor of City and Regional Planning and department chairman from 1969 to 1971, says Harvard's program lacks balance. "Planning is not a bunch of numbers," Vigier says, adding, "It deals basically with human beings and how they deal with space." Vigier points out that most of the professors on the Harvard faculty had very little professional planning experience...
Stephen K. Bailey, professor Education and Social Policy and president of the National Academy of Education, says he has been devoted to the notion of a separate Department of Education for more than 10 years. "HEW suffers from elephantitis," says Bailey. "Enormous budgets and resources end up going to the 'H' and the 'W' but not to the 'E."' The Commissioner of Education, as Bailey puts it, is on the fourth bureaucratic level. To make matters worse, he argues, "there have been 15 commissioners in the last 18 years--it's just a revolving door. Nobody knows who's responsible...