Word: creation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Creation of a great mass of vocationally trained people on the one hand and a comparatively small group of culturally educated persons on the other, would tend to destroy the unifying force in American democracy. For one of the bases of democracy is a common, diversified education. Education along these lines enables all classes of men to communicate with each other, to govern themselves, to lead richer lives. Abolish or seriously restrict a cultural education and the common bond of free men disintegrates...
...solid and full-bodied plastic cubes within a limited space. A Cubist would paint a landscape by directing the various trees and buildings into a series of lines and solids. It is almost as if he had built his painting with blocks and spheres. Each element in such a creation is placed with direct regard to its relation with the other elements. It is an intellectual method of presenting the essence of matter in its artistic form...
...rigid up-or-out system, far better would be a plan of advancement based on two standards. The first would be a man's ability as a teacher and as a scholar; the second, the current teaching needs of the university. If these criteria are used it means the creation of an additional associate professorship whenever needed. Such a system of promotion does not necessarily imply a large block of frozen professors, but it does mean that the administration has an open mind regarding their possible...
...style Associate Professorships should be utilized to meet the educational needs which have already become apparent in the brief life of the new dispensation. In its simplest form the proposal is that the threatened gap in undergraduate instruction be filled where necessary and within existing budgetary limitations by the creation of associate professors on permanent tenure for whom there is no vacancy calculably in sight in the full-professorial ranks. The contention that Harvard education is threatened with a serious impairment unless this policy is adopted is one which the present reviewer is wholly prepared to endorse...
...equally fortunate choice is the Plan's executive secretary. Ranking Counselor Smith has the experience, the energy, and the time to make of himself an admirable liaison and field officer for Dr. Malone. President Conant's creation of the secretaryship was a wise adjustment to the practical needs of the situation...