Word: cleared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...committee itself has another report to submit, on the wider problem of tenure and teaching at Harvard. It is up to them and the faculty to make it clear that democracy is not merely an ornamental world for Commencement addresses. --The Nation
...Olympics away from the sportsmen to the control of the politicians and statesmen, which is the result of running them on too big a scale, has reached a serious stage. When so patient and sportsmanlike a figure as Bingham can no longer associate himself with the games, it is clear that something rots and smells in the state of affairs...
Even more vague and unsatisfactory are the academic criteria used in making promotions. Apparently, no official, least of all the President, has tried to make clear the concrete standards which should determine promotions. The policy he has formulated since becoming President has been almost completely contradicted by actual conditions. He has said: "Every permanent member of the staff should be a teacher and scholar." But, to take one example, Harvard badly lacks the type of teacher capable of interesting the beginner, especially in large lecture courses. He has mentioned subordinating the quantity of research to the quality of mind...
Because the difficulty of entering grades and carying on the regular office routine at the same time makes it impossible to answer individual requests, the Dean's Office plans to forestall the annual traffic jam by making clear today the above subsidary facts...
...argued that, with the resignation last autumn of assistant professor John MacI. Cassels, one of the two Faculty instructors who had been promoted, "the whole situation has been substantially changed . . . Consequently it is not at all clear on what grounds the President declares that to follow the recommendation of the Committee would be both unwise and impractical. " . . . We wish to reaffirm our entire confidence in the Committee . . . On the other hand, our misgivings about the Administration that rose from this case have not been dispelled . . . We do not see how it was possible for the President to issue his final...