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Design, performance, endurance are the true criteria of air superiority as between antagonists of nearly equal factory strength. New types, new maneuvers, new arms as developed by one side or the other will determine balance-of-power in the air from time to time, rather than sheer quantitative production. Meantime, with clearing weather and clearer plans last week, the air forces of both sides went at each other in the greatest numbers yet. As usual, claims made by both sides diverged widely...
...Administration may counter that it has in the past recognized this necessity of creating frozen associate professorships when "exceptional circumstances" warranted. It's interpretation, of course, limited "exceptional circumstances" to cases where men had been retained on the faculty so long that any sensible or humane criteria dictated their permanent appointment on the grounds of "commitment." Obviously the spirit of the Faculty resolution goes leagues beyond this concept. The Faculty was training its sights on flexibility: on the use of frozen associate professorships to corral capable men whose appointments come up at times when the ordinary quota would require that...
...place of a 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...
...mere fact that the Corporation will conduct its enquiry means that at the present time no criteria for the use of halls exist. If this is so, however, Browder has been excluded without reason. Certainly the Corporation fails to specify any reason--unless by inference it is resting its case on the weak excuse previously advanced by Mr. Greene. In the absence of any verbal justification of the action, the suspicion grows that Browder is a persona non grata to Harvard authorities for more reasons than his passport peccadilloes...
What kind of criteria will be set up is a subject for uninformed conjecture. The tenor of the words used in the statement would seem to imply that public figures to whom any unpleasant notoriety attaches, or who stand at the center of heated non-academic controversies will be banned from Harvard. The motive behind the establishment of this or any other standard would be to ward off possible unfavorable publicity. Certainly it could not be to prevent the perversion of students' minds...