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...Richard Ellmann, author of the definitive biography of James Joyce, has decided to remain in England and to refuse an offer to join the Harvard Faculty...
...Ellmann, Goldsmith Professor at New College in Oxford, notified the Administration of his decision late this summer. Alan E. Heimert, chairman of the English Department, said Wednesday...
...Ellmann, reached last Friday in London, said he had received many "tempting offers" to teach. "I don't feel in the end that I wanted to leave." He said last March that he "loves it here" in England...
Heimert said the English Department had recommended Ellmann for a professorship last fall "on the basis of considerable indications that he [Ellmann] might come back." Ellmann made these indications when he visited Cambridge in June, 1972, Heimert said...
...third and in some ways the most serious criticism of Harvard departments as meritocracies is that they are self-defining elites. The men who compose the English Department look for Richard Ellmann, the Sociology Department takes Christopher Jencks, and the Economics Department rejects Samuel Bowles, and in each case the department measures the potential member against its own standard. The controls outside ad hoc committees actually exert over tenured appointments are initially not very impressive, and become less so when their membership is considered. Ad hoc committees consist of non-Harvard leading scholars in the field, and Harvard's experts...