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...English Department has not been the first to suffer absentee casualties; last year a number of Government concentrators felt that it had been unwise to schedule sabbaticals for Professors Kissinger, Hoffmann, and Bowie during the same year. What seems to be lacking is coordination between the departmental chairman and his staff. A tentative schedule of sabbaticals and leaves of absence could be drawn up to prevent gaps in the curriculum, while changes of plans could be worked out among Faculty members...
...RALPH G. HOFFMANN Chesterton...
...essay writing and imaginative touches (like the marvelous montage, "The Harvard Architectural Museum"). But the final impression is of a rushed job: the sections on Presidents Pusey and Gilbert are just tired speeches, obviously stuffed in at the last moment to full a copy gap; typographical errors abound (Stanley Hoffmann and Myron Gilmore must have been amused at the spelling of their names); and much of the writing is loose and imprecise, like a first draft...
These new offerings, Nye said last night, will give undergraduates "complementary courses" which they otherwise would have missed. "Sure there'll be a gap," he said, "but it will hurt only those students who have planned poorly and waited until their senior year to take Kissinger and Hoffmann...
...fail (it took the French seven years to realize what they had to do in Indochina and seven years again in Algeria). But I am afraid that it is at any rate too late to hope that the last act will give a happy end to the play. Stanley Hoffmann Professer of Government