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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Social Sciences suffers a heavier loss than either the Natural Sciences or the Humanities. For in addition to the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, which draws on all three fields, the Social Sciences surrenders an enormous amount of energy to the Graduate School of Public Administration. The Natural...

Author: By Andrew E. Norman, | Title: Faculty Allocation System Ignores Popularity Trends, Favors Consistency, Long-Range Plan | 12/14/1949 | See Source »

An excellent example of this policy in action is the social relations field. The Social Relations Department was established after the war to include the now extinct Sociology Department and portions of the Anthropology and Psychology Departments. Before the war, these three departments together averaged 237 concentrators, or 6.6 percent...

Author: By Andrew E. Norman, | Title: Faculty Allocation System Ignores Popularity Trends, Favors Consistency, Long-Range Plan | 12/14/1949 | See Source »

But the system has two disadvantages, neither of which the University considers compelling at this time. Whereas a large department, which makes a permanent appointment every two or three years, can bring in outstanding scholars from all over the country whenever they turn up, the smaller department, with appointments only...

Author: By Andrew E. Norman, | Title: Faculty Allocation System Ignores Popularity Trends, Favors Consistency, Long-Range Plan | 12/14/1949 | See Source »

Fine Arts offers the best example of the opposite trend. Before the war, Fine Arts averaged 2.7 percent of all concentrators; for the past three years it has averaged .9 percent, a decline to one third its former size. But it has nine full and associate professors, just as it...

Author: By Andrew E. Norman, | Title: Faculty Allocation System Ignores Popularity Trends, Favors Consistency, Long-Range Plan | 12/14/1949 | See Source »

Present plans would make the skating facilities available to all students in the University, their guests, and probably Radcliffe. But because of existing rules for student organizations, any "Skating Club" formed would have to be strictly Harvard students, and 50 percent undergraduates. Eighty-one percent of the ballots counted said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Poll Indicates Skating Rink Wanted by Undergraduates | 12/14/1949 | See Source »

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