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Fleeing from Poland to Italy and then through a war-torn France to Lisbon and the America-bound steamer "Excambion," Waclaw Lednicki, visiting professor of Slavonic literature has managed to keep one precarious step ahead of the Gestapo...
...Waclaw Lednicki, distinguished scholar and critic who has just been appointed visiting lecturer, will be a valuable addition to Harvard's topnotch Slavic department. But his presence here raises two pertinent questions: (1) If Professor Ernest J. Simmons' appointment was terminated last year as an economy move, how can the University afford to import an expert to fill his shoes? And (2), since Slavic scholars don't grow on trees, what would have happened to the department if Professor Lednicki hadn't happened to be available...
Fugitive from two Nazi invasions, Waclaw Leduicki, professor of Russian Literature at the Universities of Cracow and Brussels, has been appointed Visiting Lecturer in Slavie for the academic year, the University announced yesterday...
Correcting your story of last Thursday on Slavic courses for the current year, l should like to announce that Slavic 110 (Pushkin) will be taught by Professor Waclaw Lednicki, of the universities of Cracow and Brussels, the leading European Pushkin authority outside the Soviet Union, who is joining our staff this year as Visiting Lecturer. He will also give a number of lectures in Slavic 1, beside conducting Slavic 8 (a new course on the Russian novelists) and Slavic 12 (advanced Russian). I might also point out that the second half of Slavic l was taught last year...