Introductory Letter to the Reader. - Why bother? (Your point of view). Why bother? (My point of view). Editorial responsibility. - The letters. Introductory and other comments. Objectivity. - The Story: Summary. - A Reply to Lang. - The LaddLipset SurveysA Brief Review. The Methodology of the 1977 Survey. Survey Research on Public Opinion and Social Values. Sampling. Nonresponse. Question Design and Questionnaire Development. Envoi. - The File. - The 1977 Survey of the American Professoriate. - VERITAS AT HARVARD by Sigmund Diamond from the New York Review of Books 28 April 1977. - The First Year. - One: The Opening Exchange. - Two: From Koblitz's Letter to Lang's Fifteen Pages of Comments. - Three: From Lang's Comments to the Science Article. - Four: From Science to New York Review of Books. - Five: The Garfinkel Letter (McCarthyism?). - Six: The New York Review of Books Article. - The Second Year. - Seven: Trying to Settle Loose Ends. - Eight: The Chronicle Causes a Rebound. - Nine: From Mac Lane's Letter to the Editors (Notices AMS) to Lang's Letter to the Editor (Bulletin AAUP). - Ten: The Stakes Are Raised. - Eleven: The Ratings Get Publicity. - Twelve: The AAUPChronicle Relation. - Thirteen: End of the Second Year. - Into a Third Year. - Fourteen: McCarthyism? (Again). - Fifteen: Intemperate and Libelous?. - Sixteen: LaddLipset Survey Research Sociology. Can We Generalize? How?. - Seventeen: The Story Goes On. - Eighteen: Closing the File. - Appendices. - Appendix II. Documents on the CarnegieACE 1969 Survey. - Lang Letter to Clark Kerr on the 1969 Survey. - Appendix III. Representative Sampling I: Non-scientific Literature by William Kruskal and Frederic Mosteller. - Appendix IV. Veritas at Harvard. - Some Themes and Issues. - S. Lang. - Correction. The 1977 Survey of the American Professoriate: quality; use of the questionnaire; academic effect; administrative effect and public effect. Survey research. Sociology. Social Sciences. VERITAS AT HARVARD. Scholarship: academic only? active? political? Journalistic power; the cc list; letters to the editor. Financial power. Subservience to authority and power: intellectual authority; statutory authority and power. The competence of the surveyors. The personal aspect of the file. The methodology of the file. Collegiality. Responsibility: institutional; journalistic; scientific; personal. Conclusion. - Publication of the File. - Comments and Letters. - Selective Memory and Scholarly Controversy. - Seymour Martin Lipset. Language: English