Word: existing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...budget difficulties affect the faculty where it hurts--in the pocket book. Young professors come with no assurance that they will be carried from one June to the next. Assistant Professors are not granted life tenures because the salary money does not exist. Actually the school cannot guarantee positions for more than five or ten years in the future. They plan for the future, hope for the future, but can do nothing definite until their budget is on a more stable footing. It is like a runner who hurdles a wide hole confident that he will land on the other...
First, major loopholes exist in the speech curriculum. There is not even one half-course in argumentation; yet there certainly are hundreds going into government, law, and economics who could use such intensive training. There is not even one half-course in radio; yet Harvard and Radcliffe surely have students interested in radio vocations. There is no faculty member available to coach debate and other extra-curricular speech activities; yet Harvard has debate councils and there are probably students interested in other types of speech contests. In fact, there isn't even a field of concentration in speech, even though...
...currently offered courses. English Q, Advanced Public Speaking, presents a tragicomic situation which admittedly is the worst. It is limited to fifteen students and offered only in the spring! Assume that future lawyers and the like would only need to polish their skill in an argumentation course which did exist. Then only the future clergymen, teachers, and businessmen would have need of English. It is impossible for this one class to be adequate. Other existing courses could be criticized similarly...
...come to the Eliot House library just a bit before eight will be turned away. And that is as it should be. Yeats wanted his plays performed before a small group for good reason. They are delicate weldings of poetry, music, and dance--all in a mystical world existing only in the minds of romantic men. The plays extol the hero Cuchalain and with him all brave deeds and fearless men. They reject the objective intellect--the only intelligence that exists for them is that of cunning or wise counsel in the art of war. The mind alone, the scholar...
...Lubells explained, in a letter published in last week's Record, that they were resigning in order "to see the Record continue to exist as the newspaper of the law students serving the Law School and to continue to express itself forthrightly on all matters, including academic freedom...