Word: departmental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although not officially announced by either the English Department or the University reliable sources indicate that Fred Norris Robinson '91, Gurney Professor of English Literature, will resign before the end of the academic year.
With the retirement of Professor Lowes in December the expected vacancy will leave two full professorships open to younger men in the department. Rumor in the English Department rates Professor Kenneth B. Murdock, Master of Leverett House, as most likely successor to the Gurney chair.
Economics, the third department in the division, continues as leader of all fields of concentration with 111 as opposed to the 104 who enrolled in it last year. Of the 914 members of the Freshman class who have already turned in cards, 11.8 per cent intend to concentrate in Economics...
I do not suggest that Mr. Loewi is disingenuous; he is trying to be judicial, but he has not mentioned the inevitable frequency with which men are dismissed after nine years as faculty members, nor given the Fine Arts Department a bow for its solatium of a year's salary...
In past years the History I department has asked for reading notes during the more industrious first few weeks in the fall; the present request has thrown the Yard into considerable confusion.