Word: butted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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But the system has two disadvantages, neither of which the University considers compelling at this time. Whereas a large department, which makes a permanent appointment every two or three years, can bring in outstanding scholars from all over the country whenever they turn up, the smaller department, with appointments only...
Fine Arts offers the best example of the opposite trend. Before the war, Fine Arts averaged 2.7 percent of all concentrators; for the past three years it has averaged .9 percent, a decline to one third its former size. But it has nine full and associate professors, just as it...
In the twenties; the solution was easy: add more men to departments which attracted more students. But in the twenties the University was constantly expanding. The Houses were being built. Enrollment was going up. Wealthy graduates were endowing chairs and putting Harvard in their wills.
The rest of the College--the Natural Science and Humanities--operates with much small courses, and therefore much more personal attention. But which came first, the chickens the egg? Are Social Sciences courses inherently more adaptable to large lecture halls of other courses? Or is it merely that the great...
If the answer to the first of each pair questions is completely affirmative, there no need for flexibility in the Faculty. But less the second questions can be answer definitely to the negative, a certain amount sensitivity to student box office demand necessary.