Word: eighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...light of this, the Administration's action can be interpreted in two different ways. First, it is possible that Mr. Conant does not propose to carry out the intentions of the Committee of Eight, but plans permanently to hold the "middle group" at a lower level. Needless to say, this would add up to an incalculable injury to Harvard's educational facilities...
...middle men"--younger men with more than eight years of experience--bear by far the greatest burden of undergraduate teaching, since they give the most important courses and provide the most competent tutorial instruction. Under the old tenure plan, they might roughly have been classed as the assistant professors plus the associate professors. When the Committee of Eight proposed to abolish the rank of assistant professor, it was not proposing to reduce the middle group to that extent. Instead, it intended that this number be held constant, and that for every assistant professorship abolished, a new associate professorship should...
...Those changes have now been made, and there is every reason to believe that the revitalized Plan is destined for success. But Mr. Conant's brain child has no guardian, and the President seems little concerned about appointing one. The American Civilization Plan is without a chairman, and the eight units which compose it are without a common brain to guide them...
Were he to descend a few academic steps, the President might find what he is seeking. For among the eight American Civilization Counsellors, there is one who has survived last year's shakeup. Experienced, willing, and free from the worries and obligations attendant upon a full professorship, Henry N. Smith, Counsellor in the Union, seems an excellent choice for executive head of the American Civilization Plan. The President would do well to waive the question of rank, and appoint this logical candidate. The Plan perished once from administrative neglect; it is not long likely to display the tenacity...
...Committee of Eight's report on tenure, adopted in principle by President Connat last spring, envisioned the gradual abolition of the rank of assistant professor, and a considerable increase in the number of permanent appointments at the permanent rank of associate professor...