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Fairbank and Edwin O. Reischauer, University Professor, both said this week they were sorry to hear about the decision. "But," Fairbank said, "Everytime you add a professor you have to have $1 million--the problem is the resources you have...
...used to lecture his classes from notes he compiled in the course of writing a book. As soon as he completed the manuscript, he would move on to teach another course in another branch of economics in the interest of preventing boredom. For the same reason, Craig, Fairbank and Reischauer consistently lecture in Soc Sci 11 on the parts of the East Asian tome they didn't write. Loomis decided to leave his Math I teaching post as soon as the department voted to switch to his text several years ago. "I get embarrassed about using my own," Loomis confided...
...Harvard-Washington axis, as it became known, flourished during the Kennedy and Johnson years. No matter where you looked, there was a Harvard personality in a top government job: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. '38, former professor of History at Harvard, was special assistant to the President; Edwin O. Reischauer, University Professor, was ambassador to Japan; John Kenneth Galbraith, Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus, was ambassador to India; McGeorge Bundy, former dean of the Faculty, was the President's national security advisor; Archibald Cox '34, Williston Professor of Law, was solicitor-general. The list was seemingly endless...
...professors have offered when asked why they use their own texts. If numbers sold are any mark of quality when it comes to textbooks, the assumption may not be as presumptuous as it sounds. The Soc Sci 11 textbook "East Asian Civilization," for example, co-authored by Edwin O. Reischauer, University Professor, Albert Craig, professor of Japanese History, and John K. Fairbank '29, Higginson Professor of History, was written for the course about 20 years ago when, as Reischauer says, "We were killing ourselves to teach two whole civilizations without a printed page to work from." Since that time...
...that the ten cents the University of California Press sends him for every copy of his $2.95 book sold, amounts to one or two days salary--the royalties he makes from books sold to his Harvard classes alone amount to almost nothing. Even in the exceedingly rare case of Reischauer's royalty income, which for one East Asian textbook reaches the $4000-mark annually, the author says the return is a "complete drop in the bucket" in terms of his annual salary. "If people want to write for money, they steer away from textbooks and concentrate on magazine articles. Royalties...