Word: scholarship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such unorthodox antics are not deemed seemly in a Professor of Law at Harvard, however, and Seavey settled down in 1927 to the more conventional pursuits of his profession, notably scholarship. A member of the American Law Institute, an organization devoted to codifying the case law in various fields, Seavey has been the Reporter for Agency law since 1923 and has taken part in the Restatements of the law of Judgments, Torts, and Restitution--all this in addition to a professor's usual output of texts and casebooks...
...role is magnified by its long-term importance. The scholarly work of every educator and every professor is ultimately consigned to the librarian. By determining how this material will be assembled and made available to the public, the librarian has a permanent effect upon the course of scholarship...
Traditionally, the librarianship is the office of a scholar. Administrators are his assistants, but administration is meticulously subordinated to the library as an instrument of scholarship and education. When administrative complications threatened the usefulness of the library, the solution has been to get more money, build new buildings, hire a large staff...
What of visiting scholars? "We don't want to handicap scholarship," Metcalf has maintained, "but the University is not in a position to operate a free public library." Yet the Yale PhD. candidate can use Widner for nothing. While the Harvard graduate student must pay $200 for almost identical privileges...
...Although I have great respect for the high level of scholarship at the University of Washington, I personally would not return there for a visiting engagement before there are more concrete steps to show that the university will uphold academic freedom more consistently than it has in the past," Weisskopf continued...