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Roger J. Bulger '55 of Hollis, New York and Winthrop House, captain of the varsity basketball team, won the Francis H. Burr Scholarship for "scholarship and athletic ability...
...Allston Burr Senior Tutors' appointments begin to expire, the University must quickly solve a problem it temporarily shelved three years ago. Dean Bender's 1951 report, which started the decentralization of the dean's Office and creation of the Burr tutorship, recommended that the Senior Tutors be permanent members of the faculty, ranking, in other words, at least as associate professors. In hastening to implement the program in 1952, however, the administration filled the posts with non-tenure men. While these tutors have filled their posts excellently, their administrations have pointed out more problems in the proposed system than earlier...
After the Burr program had been in effect only four months, in the spring of 1953, a poll of the new Senior tutors found they all were concerned by the little time left for academic work. This situation has continued, and some tutors today face the prospect of losing the chance for advancement in their departments because of time they have lost in administrative work...
Obviously, then, if Burr Tutorships are to continue on a high level, such a situation can not go on. If permanent men do no immediately fill the posts, they will never do so, because with the passing of time permanent faculty members will come to regard the tutorships as posts for nontenure men. Non-permanent members of the faculty, on the other hand, would also refuse to accept them for fear of academic suicide...
Despite a few difficulties natural in a new program, Dean Bender's original recommendations are well-advised. When the Burr appointments expire they should be filled by permanent faculty...