Word: eminente
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The mean personal quarrel between Rozelle and Al Davis, who were opposing commissioners before the National and American Football Leagues agreed to merge in 1966, has been as unseemly as the rest. Davis appears to have won his fight to relocate the Oakland Raiders in Los Angeles, though there remain...
In contrast to Rose, who goes on playing every day in a league that goes on playing nine-man baseball, Yaz has for some time now had to read wistful references to how he used to play ball. Rose has not missed a game in four sea sons in a...
And decidedly male. Not only are most Harvard professors men, but all of them face a similar pressure to conform to a kind of academic machismo. Because the Ivy world often resembles a jungle where only the "eminent" survive competitiveness, implacable devotion to the duty to publish, and very, very...
Harvard's insistence on eminent scholars does, as Davis suggests, keep the University's success rate down in its efforts to fill tenure openings. For all Harvard's popular perception as the Mecca of American universities, nearly every department chairman in the Faculty has stories to tell of assiduously wooing...
But aside from seeming impractical, Harvard's stratospheric tenure standards raise philosophical questions. Holding up eminence as the most important criterion in scholarship runs the risk of discouraging unorthodox innovation. Eminent professors, after all, in many cases gained their reputations by breaking away from the eminent scholars of their youth...