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Because a Federal law dating back to 1870 forbids Army officers on active duty to hold civilian office, Madam Perkins had to appoint a dummy administrator, make Colonel Fleming technically subject to this figurehead as well as to her. Chosen for this temporary front job was Wage-Hour's white-maned, competent publicity man, Harold Duane Jacobs, a onetime Scripps-Howard editor who is capable of going to work in a green sports coat with orange stripes, pea-green vest, blue tie, grey shirt and grey flannels...
President Conant wants to appoint faculty instructors to replace the assistant professors. But Professor Holcombe holds, and rightly, that these instructors will be neither old enough nor sufficiently experienced to fill the vacated boots. Instead he seeks to have two more permanent appointments apportioned to his Department...
...these departments, where middle-group teaching is being pared to the bone, is Government. Professor Holcombe has suggested that the remedy lies in handing the department two new permanent appointments, presumably full professorships. This would mean diverting funds from other departments -- robbing Peter to pay Holcombe. Regardless of the long-run merits of such a plan, it is unnecessary. The Government Department can solve its problems for the present and still live within its current income if it is permitted to appoint "frozen" associate professors...
...Administration decides to appoint more associate professors where they are most badly needed, it must nor rule out the ten men who were given their walking-papers last June. Some have already taken positions elsewhere; some may still prove unworthy of a life-long job on the Faculty. But some of them may yet be restored, and with them a measure of inspiration and competence that Harvard must not lose...
...last year's shakeup. Experienced, willing, and free from the worries and obligations attendant upon a full professorship, Henry N. Smith, Counsellor in the Union, seems an excellent choice for executive head of the American Civilization Plan. The President would do well to waive the question of rank, and appoint this logical candidate. The Plan perished once from administrative neglect; it is not long likely to display the tenacity...