Word: conant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Faculty meets only for formal purposes and then delegates its work to the smaller Faculty Council. But on Tuesday the full Faculty (consisting of all ranks over and including Faculty Instructors) was discussing a question which must have seemed more pressing than any that has come up in President Conant's six-year tenancy of University Hall...
...policy of Faculty tenure, and it was further inquired if that policy itself was right. The application occurred so suddenly, during the examination period last June, that few students realized that ten assistant professors, bearers of the main load of undergraduate teaching, had been lopped off. President Conant explained at the time that he was putting into effect the recommendations for increased security of the Faculty committee on tenure, but his critics pointed out that the committee foresaw no such immediate action as was taken. Criticism ran all the way from the one that called it an ungracious...
...Conant Endorses Embargo Repeal." "Borab Says Repeal Means War." "Seymour Says Allies Must Win." The writhing head-lines pound meaninglessly at the Vagabond's head as he tries to understand and to make up his own mind. Join the Allies and save democracy from the totalitarians? Stay out under all circumstances? Go into the business with measures short of war? Not just idle questions, for perhaps they are even matters of life and death to the Vagabond...
...this President Conant foresaw, last week, when he wrote the letter. He knew that the fight would be one with no quarter asked or given. He knew that those who felt as he did would be at a disadvantage. And so he has made an attempt to introduce into the fight a few rules of fair play. He has appealed to the opposition not to present the issue as one of immediate war or peace. He has done the same thing President Roosevelt did at the outset of his message to Congress when he attributed high motives to his opponents...
Astute, yes. But will it be effective? Some hint as to the possible reaction can be gained from Alf Landon's reply. It is brief, non-committal, obvious. It shows plainly Mr. Landon's embarrassment. But it contains no hint of a willingness to cooperate. One fears that, Mr. Conant notwithstanding, the debate will go on--bitterly, irrationally, without inhibitions. The only hope of thinking persons is that eventually reason will prevail on a national scale, and that the decision thus made will be reflected in Congress over the adroitly dramatized objections of an irresponsible and misguided minority...