Word: betweeners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The course, the purpose of which is to study the sociological relationship between the instructor and pupils, and their relationship to other social institutions, plans to take Harvard as a base and to discuss the processes of the University thoroughly.
The advantages of such a Book Center are two-fold. First it would establish a balance between graduate students and undergraduates, as far as library facilities were concerned. To get a book in the Center would mean turning around in a chair and picking it off the shelves. And if...
It may be objected that a Book Center would merely double the House libraries. But among the average nine thousand books are found only course texts with few additional volumes. The difference between this number and the one hundred thousand books contained in the Center is a measure of the...
Dean Ferguson's memorandum appears to assume that the University has no choice in the matter. It treats the existing policy as the dictate of an implacable budget rather than as the result of a choice among alternatives. At least one alternative, it must be evident, there is. The University...
...Between receipt of an associate professorship and retirement men die. They inherit money. They get tired. Or they are offered more attractive positions elsewhere.... Whenever under the new policy an intrinsically desirable teacher is turned out of Harvard and thereafter (within "the next five or ten years") a permanent appointee...