No Popularity Polls

To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

In an address at the Harvard Club of Boston on May 10, in connection with the James Flack Norris Award by the Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society, I said that in the future, student appraisals of faculty teaching might become part of academic routine. At this point, I was careful to read from manuscript. Therefore I am able to assure you that I did not describe such proceedings as "popularity polls," or suggest that faculty "jobs" might depend upon the "marks." George Shannon Forbes '02

The phrases "popularity polls," "jobs," and "marks" were taken from an Associated Press account of Professor Forbes' speech.