Dr. Bernard Carroll, known as the "conscience of psychiatry," contributed to various blogs, including Margaret Soltan's University Diaries, for which he sometimes wrote limericks under the name Adam.
New York Times
George Washington University English professor Margaret Soltan writes a blog called University Diaries, in which she decries the Twilight Zone-ish state our holy land’s institutes of higher ed find themselves in these days.
The Electron Pencil
It’s [UD's] intellectual honesty that makes her blog required reading.
Professor Mondo
There's always something delightful and thought intriguing to be found at Margaret Soltan's no-holds-barred, firebrand tinged blog about university life.
AcademicPub
You can get your RDA of academic liars, cheats, and greedy frauds at University Diaries. All disciplines, plus athletics.
truffula, commenting at Historiann
Margaret Soltan at University Diaries blogs superbly and tirelessly about [university sports] corruption.
Dagblog
University Diaries. Hosted by Margaret Soltan, professor of English at George Washington University. Boy is she pissed — mostly about athletics and funding, the usual scandals — but also about distance learning and diploma mills. She likes poems too. And she sings.
Dissent: The Blog
[UD belittles] Mrs. Palin's degree in communications from the University of Idaho...
The Wall Street Journal
Professor Margaret Soltan, blogging at University Diaries... provide[s] an important voice that challenges the status quo.
Lee Skallerup Bessette, Inside Higher Education
[University Diaries offers] the kind of attention to detail in the use of language that makes reading worthwhile.
Sean Dorrance Kelly, Harvard University
Margaret Soltan's ire is a national treasure.
Roland Greene, Stanford University
The irrepressibly to-the-point Margaret Soltan...
Carlat Psychiatry Blog
Margaret Soltan, whose blog lords it over the rest of ours like a benevolent tyrant...
Perplexed with Narrow Passages
Margaret Soltan is no fan of college sports and her diatribes on the subject can be condescending and annoying. But she makes a good point here...
Outside the Beltway
From Margaret Soltan's excellent coverage of the Bernard Madoff scandal comes this tip...
Money Law
University Diaries offers a long-running, focused, and extremely effective critique of the university as we know it.
Anthony Grafton, American Historical Association
The inimitable Margaret Soltan is, as usual, worth reading. ...
Medical Humanities Blog
I awake this morning to find that the excellent Margaret Soltan has linked here and thereby singlehandedly given [this blog] its heaviest traffic...
Ducks and Drakes
As Margaret Soltan, one of the best academic bloggers, points out, pressure is mounting ...
The Bitch Girls
Many of us bloggers worry that we don’t post enough to keep people’s interest: Margaret Soltan posts every day, and I more or less thought she was the gold standard.
Tenured Radical
University Diaries by Margaret Soltan is one of the best windows onto US university life that I know.
Mary Beard, A Don's Life
[University Diaries offers] a broad sense of what's going on in education today, framed by a passionate and knowledgeable reporter.
More magazine, Canada
If deity were an elected office, I would quit my job to get her on the ballot.
Notes of a Neophyte
January 22nd, 2013 at 12:34AM
He must have done this twice, because the one I heard, he got it right! Maybe Dr. Biden corrected him between appearances?
January 22nd, 2013 at 3:37AM
Susan: Hm! I didn’t listen past that first appearance – I’ll check and see if she (or someone) corrected him…
January 23rd, 2013 at 9:58AM
[…] happens to those of us who teach aesthetics? Three of our students gather round us and recite Keats (Milton?) as we […]
January 24th, 2013 at 2:19AM
“They also serve who only stand and waite.”
My father, who was very fond of Milton, would always quote this line if he encountered acquaintances while out shopping with my mother. She’d deposit packages or items to purchase with him and disappear back into clothing racks or another store, and he’d elevate the great husband-ly duty of guarding purchases with a bit of 17th century verse.
In grad school I’ve taken to nonchalantly deploying the line when forced to wait for extended periods outside faculty offices when previous meetings have egregiously run over into my scheduled appointments.
I once also quoted this from PL (as best I could remember) to describe an aged faculty member fond of shredding graduate students’ dreams:
“Whose snowie ridge the roving Tartar bounds,
Dislodging from a Region scarce of prey
To gorge the flesh of Lambs or yeanling Kids”
There’s a reason my department looks at me funny.
April 24th, 2013 at 5:43PM
He did it again today, at what was otherwise a magnificent speech honoring the slain MIT officer. Odd that he got the attribution right in 2010 at a VFW speech, then blew it twince in 2013. At any rate he seems to like the poem, although I am not at all sure what the line means. My Milton professor suggested it could mean wait as in wait on tables, serve as a waiter. Time now to scrutinize Jill’s credentials if in fact she fed him the line–or maybe even “corrected” him when he (or his speechwriter) said Milton in 2010. She as a professional would be far more culpable on this one. BTW, I agree with your overall assessment of JB. This “gaffe” is of a higher order 🙂
April 24th, 2013 at 8:44PM
[…] In this post, UD pointed out that the source of this line, about as unKeatsian a line as I can think of, is John Milton: […]