Word: departmenters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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One day last week Wage-Hour Administrator Elmer Frank Andrews removed his bronze bust of Franklin Roosevelt, his handsome fountain-pen set, other personal belongings from Room 5144 in Washington's Department of Labor Building. Just eight days short of a year since Federal wage-hour regulation began, gloomy...
...Most ironical of all, that Department has among its members E. Pendleton Herring, one of the country's stand-outs in the party-pressure field. In previous years he has taught an excellent undergraduate course on this subject, but his recent appointments as Secretary of the Littauer School and Departmental Examiner have left him time for little else. Mr. Herring's interests and abilities are first and foremost as scholar and teacher, yet his new administrative duties prevent him from following these natural inclinations. Here is a manifest example of wasted resources...
Instead of bringing someone from outside Harvard to lecture on parties, as now seems intended, the Department should indulge in a little judicious juggling of present assignments. In this way Mr. Herring could be freed to teach Government 12 once again.
If the choice of John Sly as lecturer on local government is any criterion, the Department seems to plan to make temporary appointments until faculty instructors are ready to take over the various vacated fields. Such a solution can only be frowned upon. Special lecturers, while they may cope with...
Inexorably one returns to the "frozen" associate professorships as the only satisfactory answer. By extending these appointments to the key men among its departing assistant professors, the Government Department can prevent the appearance of any further gaps in its teaching and tutoring program. By juggling its assignments, the Department can...