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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Boston Beriberi. In Boston Drs. Soma Weiss & Robert W. Wilkins found numerous "alcoholics, diabetics, food cranks and pregnant women" who suffered from "rapid heart rate, enlarged heart, shortness of breath, attacks of asthma." Their skins were usually warm and red. These people were "especially prone to develop broncho-pneumonia." They suffered, the Boston doctors decided with astonishment, from beriberi, a disease due to malnutrition. It is common in the Orient, especially in Java, had never before been recognized in the U. S. Cure: vitamin...
...After a through investigation of the subject, it is the opinion of the Student Council that Drs. Sweezy and Walsh were not dismissed for their political beliefs or their affiliations with the labor movement. Of course the Council realizes that in a dynamic subject such as Economics it is difficult for one man to judge another without considering his fundamental social beliefs, but despite this factor, it seems that the senior members of the Economics Department and the Administration made their decision purely on the comparative ability...
...present case the full and associate professor of the Department were obliged as happens periodically, to reduce the number of younger men in the Department. Drs. Sweezy and Walsh, as the eldest of the younger group, were judged to be less able than certain of their colleagues; therefore the Department recommended that they be even a three year concluding appointment. The practice of "conclud- ing" appointments in designed to give a man notice of the termination of his services and give him opportunity to obtain another position. The President, who has the power of approval or veto, automatically cut this...
...abilities of Drs. Walsh and Sweezy, as compared to those of other instructors and tutors in the Department, the Council realizes that there is a sharp difference of opinion between those who made the decision and many students, other faculty members, and outsiders. The Council feels that this conflict cannot be avoided or eradicated...
However, the case of Drs. Sweezy and Walsh focuses attention on four main problems which are of vital importance in the administration of the University and on which there is considerable debate. They...