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...high scholastic standing, but indebtedness, term time employment, and extra-curricular activities are the chief criteria for making awards, he added...
...keynote of the demands of Administration opponents. They are not slaves to figures as is the Administration for they realize that figures obliterate all human and educational values. They are not demanding a certain fixed number of additional "frozen" associates. Rather they are asking that the sole criteria for permanence on Harvard's teaching staff be teaching needs and the capabilities of the men involved. Such a request may sound wildly impossible in view of fixed and unalterable budgetary limitations. But the answer--the panacea--is flexibility in the system of appointment to the rank of associate professor...
...that, it handles only about 300 cases per year. The chief litigation is divorce. Judge Hastie had only two murder convictions in his two years. Rape cases are nearly as infrequent. The Court is peripatetic, traveling between the islands of St. Thomas and St. Croix. As it goes, its criteria must change, for until a few years ago St. Thomas and St. Croix had separate assemblies, separate laws. St. Thomas, for example, does not provide capital punishment for murder. Civil cases (including probate) outrank criminal cases two to one. Contract claims and damages run in hundreds rather than thousands...
...judge any program by whether I think it tends to distribute power and bring about equilibrium, whether it tends to destroy privilege, whether it subjects itself to reason and measures itself by criteria-the chief criterion in the economic field being the release of productive energy. My program, which is the program of a journalist, and not the program of a person with any political ambitions whatsoever, is to try to make more people think along these lines...
Scattered among pleas for "thoughtful rebels" and for definite merit criteria, the eight distinguished professors recommended the abolition of assistant professorships. They wisely felt the probationary period before final decision on permanent appointment to be too long and by the elimination of one academic rank they hoped to provide the lucky few with security at an earlier age. At the same time, they wished to set the others on the job-path before any lasting damage had been dealt their careers. But recognizing the dangers of applying its proposals too hastily, they worried: "Although some of the Committee's suggestions...