Word: exoduses
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...face of controversy over the University's tenure policy and an increased exodus of young instructors from Harvard this spring, Pitirim Sorokin, professor of Sociology, issued a statement last night objecting to details in the University's attitude about faculty tenure as formulated by the Committee of Eight's report...
Professor Sorokin's statement is prompted by the abnormal exodus of many of the younger instructors in the College. The Sociology Department is particularly affected because Robert K. Merton, one of the most experienced tutors in Sociology, is leaving to take up a permanent position at Tulane University. Many others are leaving for other universities from the Economics, Government, and Sociology Departments...
Referring to the exodus of instructors, Professor Sorokin says "the better scholars have better chances to receive offers from outside and when they are convinced that the situation after three or five years would be cut down at Harvard, they naturally go to other institutions. Less capable scholars have much less chance to receive an offer and respectively they would remain with us and step by step would supplement more and more the better scholars...
...addition, in several departments the exodus of the better and more mature scholars this spring happens to be so great that a considerable part of the tutoring next year will have to be done by new and less experienced tutors, This means that they would be getting their experience at the expense of their tutees, and would be sharpening their teeth on their brains...
...Bilbo thus returned to a favorite theme and revived an idea older than the U. S. itself. By subsidizing a Negro exodus to Africa, he maintained, the U. S. would rid its whites of a depressed and depressing race, save itself from racial "amalgamation...