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...James C. Thomson Jr., Lecturer in History and one of the three young historians who did not receive tenure this year, expressed the view of most junior faculty when he said. "The system is so constructed in theory and practice as to provide good teaching only by accident. On the one hand, those hired for permanency are not hired with an eye to their teaching ability. On the other hand, those who are junior faculty teach under conditions of such stress, overwork and career anxiety, knowing the odds are 99 to 1 that they won't be kept here, that...
Although the charismatic Thomson did not receive tenure, he will stay at Harvard as curator of the Nieman Fellows program. Like most administrative posts, the appointment of curator is "without limit of time." The appointment extends indefinitely but can be terminated any time at the pleasure of the President. Such an appointment lacks the security of a tenured position. As one Faculty member observed wryly. "To get thrown out, a tenured professor really has to rape little girls. Lots of them. One wouldn't be enough." Presumably, for an administrator, one would be enough...
...editor for the old New York Herald Tribune, who has been the Nieman curator since 1964. Under Sargent, it is said, the program has lacked the verve it had under the 25-year leadership of Louis Lyons. Now Sargent has resigned, and will be replaced in September by James Thomson, 40, Harvard history lecturer and a perceptive Asian scholar. Though Thomson is not a journalist, he was chairman of the Yale Daily News in his undergraduate days, contributes frequently to the Atlantic, and served with insight as China analyst for ABC during the Nixon visit to Peking. His assignment will...
...following statement was made by James C. Thomson Jr., lecturer on History and former Far East-aide at the Department of State and National Security Council Staff, 1961-66, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee yesterday...
...story takes place after Byron's death, so the hero appears only in flashback and as a ghost. The whole work is framed as an answer to the question of why Westminster Abbey would not allow Byron's body to be interred there. Thomson might almost have called it "One Sinner in Three Acts," because he dwells almost exclusively on the rakish side of Byron's character-his playboy excesses, his foppish haughtiness, his promiscuous escapades with both sexes. The listener must take Byron's poetic and personal genius on faith...