Sol Gittleman is one of those legendary professors that you had in college... that you will always remember. I was fortunate enough to have him while I was Tufts for one class... Yid Lit. Yiddish Literature. He was and still is a tour de force. Sol is heading into his 50th year at Tufts, and is as responsible as anyone else in forging Tufts into the pantheon of top-tiered American universities. He served as provost for 22 years. But growing up in Hoboken, NJ, he dreamt of playing for the Yankees, played one week of minor league ball, and almost accidentally fell into the field of German studies on the advice of his college baseball coach. A truly inspiring human being.