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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Newton Comes of Age...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 13, 1939 | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...should therefore interest you to know that this illegitimate child of yours came of educational age this week, hit the headlines in Boston papers by presenting Democratic ex-Governor Ely of Massachusetts, Communist Earl Browder, and Fascist Lawrence Dennis in this Republican bailiwick debating "What lies ahead for Capitalism." Twenty-five hundred packed the hall built for 1,500; hundreds were turned away; people came from all over the metropolitan area and from points as distant as Concord, N. H. and Providence, R. I. The air was charged, the argument occasionally abusive, but no blood was spilt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 13, 1939 | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

Lowering of the minimum retiring age from 65 to 60 is also suggested, in order that the University "may, if it wishes, make room for the more rapid cedure put forward is the establishment promotion of gifted younger...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TEACHERS' UNION URGES DRASTIC REFORMS | 3/7/1939 | See Source »

...evaluation of research, the inherent distinction between different fields must be kept constantly in mind. In the experimental sciences or mathematics, the possibility of making an independent contribution at an early age is far greater than in the humanities or the social sciences. There must be no application of the standards of one field to the problems of another, and publication alone cannot be accepted as the measure of achievement, nor should popular success be allowed to outweigh the judgment of professionally competent opinion. The presence in the upper ranks of the faculty of a few professors who are apparently...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXCERPTS FROM THE TENURE REPORT | 3/7/1939 | See Source »

Assistant professors should have a flexible rank and salary, with economics in high ranks for the benefit of lower ones, and the minimum retiring age lowered from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNION PROPOSALS | 3/7/1939 | See Source »

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