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LEVY: When I got here, there were 16 people reporting to the chancellor. There are now six. It's better to identify half a dozen people who are responsible than to leave it go, shall we say, in somewhat "collegial" a fashion. Another thing that I found invaluable is to come in with not a big team but two or three people who you could turn to. I know your reputation within your state is such that you will attract a lot of people willing to do that with you. That is a powerful place you should pivot...
...roster we have now--you know, Quincy, Kirkland, Cabot--isn't good enough, there are still a number of unanswered questions. Like nomers and misnomers: What shall we call our new living HQ? We all know the poor fate of President Hoar, whose dedicated House was eventually nixed for the most unfortunate of reasons. House names cannot be approached lightly, so here are a few suggestions, that I'm sure we'll all agree on for those diligent deans, fastidious faculty and assiduous administrators, not to mention alienated alumni...
...Legion when the war broke out and was killed in France fighting Germans in 1916--shortly after writing his poem I Have a Rendezvous with Death. The verse begins, "I have a rendezvous with Death/At some disputed barricade" and ends, "And I to my pledged word am true./I shall not fail that rendezvous." Seeger's poem inspired Franklin D. Roosevelt's famous line "This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny" and was later adopted by President John F. Kennedy when insisting that the U.S. would soon put a man on the moon...
Would he criticize an erring colleague? "I shall," Dirksen would promise, in a voice like the finest whiskey aged in fog, "invoke upon him every condign imprecation." Dirksen was especially toothsome when praising the fig newton, manufactured in Illinois. "A man who has not sunk a molar into a fig newton," Dirksen would announce, his gray-golden ringlets vibrating with emotion, "has let much of life pass...
...kind is implicit in the above canon. Whoever injected the phrase "morally straight" into the American version cannot possibly hold to an ethic of Christian charity. In 46 years of teaching, I have put my arms around many students of both sexes who needed me, and I shall continue to do so. Academic subjects are what we teach; love is what we practice. CEDRIC VENDYBACK Kelowna...