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...Harvard in the Education section of the Oct. 16 issue carried statements from an article written by a Harvard undergraduate censuring Harvard's President Conant for his policies in the "hiring & firing" of young faculty members. Aside from several errors in the TIME story, among them that Professor Burbank quit the University (he did not), it seems to me that the story fails to make a fair attempt to present both sides of a controversial issue...
...TIME knows of no factual errors in its story, apart from the statement that Professor Burbank quit Harvard (he quit the chairmanship of the economics department). TIME amply indicated that Harvard's "young man" problem is a tough one. TIME sticks to its main point: that in dealing with the problem, Harvard has caused widespread dissatisfaction among its faculty and students...
...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...
...opportunity was there to restore the previous Plan A system, if it could be done within the Department's budget, I was able to do this and it has been accepted by the Dean and the President." Burbank stated...
...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...