Word: burbank
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Economics Department has abolished Plan B, contradicting runners of an inadequate number of tutors in the department. Professor Harold H. Burbank, Chairman of the Board of Tutors in Economics, said that the department had taken no unusual action...
...these firings, President Conant was taken to task by the Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa and the Teachers Union. When Professor Harold Hitchings Burbank, head of the economics department, quit the University, the campus believed he did so as a protest, although he denied it. Last week there were other open protests besides the Progressive's, which cried that the "strange case of the assistant professors" was "more disquieting . . . than the cases of previous years. . . . Harvard education itself is at stake. . . . The disregard for undergraduate teaching, the attack on faculty security and morale, the flouting of academic democracy...
Professor Burbank, who has resigned the Economics Department chairmanship and has been succeeded by Professor Chamberlin, yesterday denied the CRIMSON'S statement that his resignation had been prompted by opposition to the Administration's tenure policy...
...addition to holding the departmental chairmanship for 12 years, Professor Burbank is Chairman of the Division's Board of Tutors and has been active in the training of teachers and in the graduate field. He gives three and a half Economic courses...
Pointing to the burden of his administrative and teaching work, Professor Burbank yesterday said, "The facts are perfectly clear." He termed the CRIMSON'S explanation of his resignation a "completely unjustified assumption...