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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...
The "historical" size of a department as an operative concept is peculiar to Harvard. The nation's oldest institution of higher education does not wish to be over-influenced by trends, by changing emphasis and intensity of student interest.
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...
In 1939-40 the University adopted a new system of appointments to full and associate professorships--the two ranks with permanent tenure. Its conception and its mechanics were largely the work of William C. Graustein '11, professor of Mathematics, an outstanding geometrician. Graustein was an extraordinary individual who brought to...
In the spring of 1939 Graustein and Provost Buck, then an associate professor of History, were appointed assistant deans of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Before the year was out, Graustein died in an automobile accident.