Word: eighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senior Sixteen were taken into Phi Beta Kappa at the meeting. Eight members are chosen by the Society during their Junior Year, 16 during the first part of their Senior year, and 65 at Commencement...
...more recommendation of the Committee of Eight in regard to Faculty personnel was put into effect yesterday with the announcement by the University that John M. Russell has been appointed Assistant to the President...
...Senate of the United States Senator Louis Wigfall of Texas, an elegant credited with winging his man in eight duels, could face the Northern Senators to say, delicately: "The difficulty between you and us, gentlemen, is, that you will not send the right sort of people here. Why will you not send either Christians or gentlemen?" And Senator Seward of New York, hearing a Louisiana Senator pour on him accusations of bad faith, could remark: "Benjamin, give me a cigar and when your speech is printed send me a copy...
Although he finds The Committee of Eight's personnel recommendations generally excellent. Marshall H. Stone '23, associate professor of Mathematics, writing in this week's The Nation doubts the effects on undergraduate teaching of the downward shift in age-distribution in the permanent Faculty ranks...
...settlement of the long-range issue can only be assayed as a victory for the "members of the opposition." Their basic charge was that the "eight years and up or out" tenure policy was stubbornly inflexible, and that if it were applied mechanically it would have sorry effects on Harvard teaching standards. The degree of flexibility which they advocated has now been incorporated into the tenure policy by the new system of swapping professorships between departments and by the faculty motion to approve frozen associate professorships. So far so good...