Word: departmentals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The new system won favor with the administration of the University and with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for three reasons. First, it makes possible long-range budgeting by the departments and the Faculty. Second, after it has had time to take effect, it protects a department from having...
But the system has two disadvantages, neither of which the University considers compelling at this time. Whereas a large department, which makes a permanent appointment every two or three years, can bring in outstanding scholars from all over the country whenever they turn up, the smaller department, with appointments only...
To attempt to accomplish this goal by office standards would be unsatisfactory the budget of a department were determined some combination of the number of its contractors and of students in its courses, the great variety which Harvard offers, and which considered by many one of its greatest strength would...
Each department requires application of afferent standards. Courses in the Social science seem to demand less personal contact between student and professor. History, Government and Social Relations courses fill New Lecture Hall, Hunt Hall, and the ground floor Lecture room of Radcliffe's Longfellow Hall.
Are there only a limited number of course possible in any given field? Or do department merely split up the accessible knowledge their fields into the number of courses which their teachers are capable of giving?