Word: departmenters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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John Fairfield Sly, now chairman of the Princeton Local Government Survey, will be a special lecturer in the Government Department during the second half year, it was authoritatively learned yesterday.
Twenty years ago there were six full professors in the Department. Today, with enrollment expanded three times, there are still but six. Much of the increased tutoring and teaching has been performed by assistant professors, but out of six of these, only two will be at hand for undergraduates when...
President Conant wants to appoint faculty instructors to replace the assistant professors. But Professor Holcombe holds, and rightly, that these instructors will be neither old enough nor sufficiently experienced to fill the vacated boots. Instead he seeks to have two more permanent appointments apportioned to his Department.
Behind the confusion the issues are clear. More full professorships are financially impossible under the present budget, and creating them would not solve the teach-tutor problem. More associate professorships can be paid for out of current income, and they will answer undergraduate needs. The Government Department can be revived...
Sly was a graduate student at Harvard between 1921 and 1926, receiving a Ph.D. After lecturing here for a number of years, he was professor of Government and chairman of the department at West Virginia University, and was rumored to be the principal braintruster for the governor of that state...