Word: drs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Drs. Hiram Houston Merritt & Tracy Jackson Putnam of Boston announced that a little used drug, diphenyl hydantoin, completely prevents, or reduces the frequency of attacks of epilepsy in 77% of patients with the severe type. It soothes, does not cause drowsiness...
...possible justification for President Conant's refusal to reinstate the two teachers as the committee recommends, and he has offered none. Since one of the two instructors who received promotions has now resigned, there is a vacancy for which Drs. Walsh and Sweezy are the logical candidates. When he appointed the committee of nine, President Conant said that there was ample time to reopen the cases if the report warranted it. There is still time and the report most emphatically does justify a reopening, yet Dr. Conant seems satisfied with things as they are. Apparently the shotgun went off entirely...
Last week the committee declared Drs. Walsh and Sweezy's views and labor activity had had nothing to do with their dismissal, was "happy to report its opinion that there was no departure whatsoever from Harvard's tradition of tolerance and of untrammeled scientific inquiry." But the committee said the dismissals were a mistake, held President Conant partly to blame for a "misunderstanding." Dr. Conant had asked the economics department to recommend two of its seven instructors for promotion. The department, unaware that this meant the dismissal of the other five, chose two more experienced members, but considered...
...committee held this weird exhibition of academic bud-nipping unfair to Drs. Walsh and Sweezy and harmful to Harvard because: i) Drs. Walsh and Sweezy were brilliant teachers, 2) Harvard sorely needs experts on labor and men of unorthodox views to broaden the outlook of its economics department. It recommended that Drs. Walsh and Sweezy (who have resigned from the university) be reinstated...
Believing it would "increase the distrust now held by many" concerning the impartiality of the attitude a taken by college corporations in academic cases, Davis expressed the hope that Harvard might find some way to right the "great wrong" done to Drs. Walsh and Sweezy...