Word: departmental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This Committee would have a representative from each field of concentration, who would be chosen with the advice of the Department chairman "on the basis of intellectual ability, . . . . with an eye towards his spirit of neutrality, and on the basis of a genuine interest in the problems of education."
The Committee for the investigation was appointed last April following the notice given to Instructors Walsh and Sweezy by the Economics department.
...charitable to reserve comment until this proposal is put into comprehensible form. As it stands, it appears entirely vague, unworkable, and unrepresentative. No mention is made of how the students who are to gather undergraduate opinion will be chosen. Apparently they are to be picked with the advice of departmental chairmen, yet undergraduates will have the right of final decision. Does this mean another convention? In addition, these students are "to be chosen first on the basis of intellectual ability; this would assure no warping of judgment as a result of poor grades." But the committee cannot seriously believe that...
Payson Smith, Lecturer on Educational Administration, will preside over the meeting tomorrow night. "The Needs of American Youth" will be discussed by Reverend George Johnson, director of the Department of Education of the National Catholic Welfare Conference.
Instructor in the Department of English from 1929 to 1936, De Voto taught a course in composition, English A-3, and another in contemporary American literature, English 70. At present he writes the "Easy Chair" column for Harper's and is living in New York.