Word: slavic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fear of incompetence, however, need not be the main criterion for the University's decision. Members of the Russian Research Center and professors of Slavic history and literature are certainly well enough versed in Soviet scholarship to pick an acceptable professor. Nor need the University fear wasting a course on Bolshevik bias. If it invited a professor in any scientific field, except perhaps atomic physics, there would be little opportunity or reason for distortion. And a Soviet professor who taught history or literature would probably attempt to conceal any bias in an attempt to prove that Soviet scholarship is respectable...
...history would be the object of some interest, he would, of course, present some problems in administration. He would have to be given at least as much academic freedom as an American professor would expect. This might mean that students would be subjected to unorthodox examinations or some other Slavic peculiarity. A Russian professor, however, as a guest would probably try to accomodate himself to the American system...
...Roman Jakobson, Cross Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature and a Russian emigre, would be making his first visit to his native land in 37 years, if he attends the meeting of the interim committee of the International Conference for Slavic Philology. With his alternate, Professor W. Lednicki of the University of California, Jakobson was elected to the planning body at a Belgrade meeting last September...
Malia, who spent nearly five months in the Soviet Union late last year arranging East-West exchange of books and periodicals, spoke under the auspices of the CRIMSON, and was introduced by Michael Karpovich, Curt Hugo Reisinger Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature...
Michael Karpovich, Reisinger Professor of Slavic Languages, will introduce Malia at tonight's lecture...