Gordon said he lived in South House, now Cabot,and "had a blast" as an undergraduate.

He was involved with activities relating to thecreation of the East Asian Studies concentrationand Phillips Brooks House.

Craig, who knew Gordon as an undergraduate andgraduate student, said Gordon was a "splendidscholar."

"He is, I think a very fine teacher," Craigsaid. "He's a very intelligent and penetratingscholar and he's very lively as a person and hiscontribution should be very large indeed.

Department Restructuring

The offer to Gordon is part of a largerrestructuring of the history department, which hasrecently made a number of curriculum changes.

Bisson said yesterday that the department wasconsidering a new two-semester world historycourse.

"It would be a broad world history surveycourse," Bisson said, but he added that theproblems and questions it explored would bedifferent from History 10.

He said History 10 will likely be taught nextyear, and the world history course could beoffered as early as 1996-7.

The course would expand the European focus ofHistory 10 to include Latin America, East Asia andAfrica, Bisson said.

The department announced an overhaul of itstutorial system last month. The new faculty-ledtutorial program, which will begin with the classof '98, will emphasize reading, writing andresearch skills.

Some faculty members also proposed movingHistory 10 into the core curriculum, but theHistorical Studies subcommittee on the Corerejected it.

"We certainly want to have a fully remodeledconcentration by the year after next," Bissonsaid