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Coming as it did at a time when most of Harvard was dazed by the sudden ending of the tenure of ten popular assistant professors, Professor Burbank's resignation last spring as chairman of the Economics department lent itself too easily to interpretation as a protest against the Administration's tenure policy. It is now clear as Professor Burbank says, that this was "an unjustified assumption." Professor Burbank, besides carrying one of the heaviest teaching loads in his department, has been the able administrator not only of the department but of its Board of Tutors and its large introductory course...
Associate Professor Charles H. Taylor has succeeded Professor Harold H. Burbank as chairman of the Division of History, Government and Economics. Professor Burbank's resignation last spring was believed to be in protest at the tenure policy of the Administration...
Despite the European turmoil 14 refugees from Naziland have arrived in Cambridge to study with the aid of the refugee scholarship fund established last year, according to a statement made last night by Charles Ennis '40, Chairman of the Refugee Committee...
Relaxation of the physics requirement for admission to the government's airplane flight instruction program was announced today by Dean Harald M. Westergaard, chairman of the University flight committee...
With the exception of Professor Burbank's resignation, none of the changes were understood to have been caused by disapproval of the University's method of appointment and dismissal. Succeeding Professor Burbank as Chairman of the Economics department is Professor Chamberlin, who is still in Europe...