Word: publishers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...removed from undergraduate life, and useful to only those Faculty members who take the initiative in submitting their works, the Press seems to be the least integral of Harvard's many organs. Yet the Press's policy, according to Thomas J. Wilson, its director for 20 years, is "to publish as many good scholarly books as possible short of bankruptcy." That is its justification, for accessible scholarship is the sine qua non of a university...
...another banker in 1949 marked the Press's major step toward solvency and the capacity to undertake large projects. Waldron Phoenix Belknap, Jr., '20, banker, architect, and amateur scholar (American Colonial Printing: Materials for a History), bequeathed about a million dollars to the Press, to be used to publish "inaccessible or hitherto unpublished source material of interest in connection with the history, literature, art (including minor and useful art), commerce, customs and manners, or way of life of the Colonial and Federal periods of the United States...
...Press gets manuscripts from all over, and most require serious consideration. "Of course," Wilson says, "we get our share of nuts who send poems that are not poems, ways to save the world and such, but that is part of publishing life." The editorial policy is to publish both specialists' books, works on the leading edge of scholarship, and books in the general area of adult education...
...more Burack looked into it, the bigger the business became. He wanted to publish an article in one of the medical journals but "a senior Harvard physician" warned him that he would antagonize his colleagues and probably never get it published...
...surrogate readers. The go-betweens' suggestions for changes were so demanding that Thomas finally quit listening. Astonished at his independence, Kennedy loyalists attacked Thomas and even now spread cutting stories about him on the cocktail circuit. Bobby Kennedy withdrew a collection of speeches that Harper was scheduled to publish. "If you live in a kitchen, you expect a hot stove," says Thomas philosophically. "But not this hot a stove...