Word: departmenters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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It was as though Harvard had struck a man who was already down, when its axe fell upon the Government Department's assistant professors. For even before the latest blow, that Department was much undermanned.
The largest decrease in the number of honors candidates has been in the English Department which now has only 33 per cent of its concentrators out for honors, with Music, Astronomy, and Classics losing ground.
"So many of our concentrators have been pre-medical men that the department has decided to open a new course that will combine the fields of medicine and psychology for the first time in the University," Gordon W. Aliport, associate professor of Psychology, announced yesterday.
The course is part of an enlargement program that the psychology department has mapped out for the ensuing year and which is destined to bring the two departments of psychology and medicine into closer harmony.
One of these departments, where middle-group teaching is being pared to the bone, is Government. Professor Holcombe has suggested that the remedy lies in handing the department two new permanent appointments, presumably full professorships. This would mean diverting funds from other departments -- robbing Peter to pay Holcombe. Regardless of...