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Consider Harvard’s illustrious English department, which offered the Morris Gray Lectureship to Tom Paulin, a poet who has said that Brooklyn-born Jews who move to Israeli settlements should be shot dead and who refers to the “Zionist S.S.” in one of his poems. Having come under fire for its choice, the department cancelled Paulin’s invitation...
...unable to attend the English department meeting at which the faculty voted to again honor Tom Paulin with the Morris Gray Lectureship, and so have, by my own doing, forfeited my right to have my opposition to renewing that honor formally counted. With respect to that decision, I acknowledge that principled people can disagree about precisely what principle—free speech or the exercise of judgement—is applicable in this case...
...writing in order to address a wrong impression that some have drawn from your front-page articles about the decision, mutually agreed upon with the noted Irish poet Tom Paulin, not to hold his poetry reading under the Morris Gray lectureship originally scheduled for Nov. 14 (News, “Controversial Poet Will Not Give Lecture” and “Poet Flap Drew Summers’ Input,” Nov. 13 and 14). The Crimson coverage can easily be read as giving the impression of a unanimous department position on the subject. Such was not the case...
...talk, called “Sixth Sense, Seventh Heaven: How Some Poems Got Written,” is the first of three seminars that Heaney will give as part of his visiting lectureship, in which he spends six weeks every other year at Harvard...
Gates appointment to the lectureship comes at a trying time for the Afro-American Studies department at Harvard. Rumors have circulated that Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74 has been considering leaving Harvard for Princeton after a meeting with University President Lawrence H. Summers earlier this fall...