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Gropius' resignation was not the only blow to the school's morale. Hudnut retired officially last spring, and President Conant has delayed choosing a successor. Today students and faculty wait uneasily, unsure of who the new head will be and how he will reorganize the curriculum. Besides this, there is a deficit of about $10,000 a year for the school to erase. It has necessitated many one-year appointments, and a corresponding number of insecure instructors. Some on tenure spend little time teaching, concentrating on private practice, while the rest bear heavy teaching loads with inadequate salaries...
Students, however, were practically unanimous in their praise of the course, and petitioned President Conant to continue it. Only a few were disappointed, thinking, like Stubbins, that the course "would be better placed on a high school level...
...LeBounllen (new reinstated), and he felt that Planning 1, then a required curse for architects, landscapes architects, and regional planners, was taking too much time from the architects. He though there eight to be an equally intensive basic design course. The faculty agreed such a course was needed, and Conant gave him $20,00 to experiment to two years...
President Conant has indicated he will choose Hudnut's successor before the next Overseer's meeting on January 11. The faculty now asks itself who the new dean will be, and, perhaps, even more important; what kind of a dean doss Conant want...
...house received some remodling. Palmer lived there the longest of anyone--from 1884 to 1933, existing on "the decay of Greece", as he put it--and presented the Yard with the last half of the house's name. Richard S. Gummere, retired director of Admissions, occupied it until Conant moved in, dispossesed from his own lodgings by the U. S. Navy. The President moved back down Quincy Street in 1946, and by the next year, the house was in its present location...