Word: facultymen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...abolished as dividing the university community. This would supplement the recent Chicago reform whereby faculty contracts will be gradually rewritten 1) to command every professor's full time for eleven months a year at an improved salary, 2) to pour into the University's coffers whatever money facultymen earn from lecturing, broadcasting, publishing outside the University. But Hutchins will let a Nobel Prizewinner keep his swag; he regards that (sometimes as much as $46,000) as "unearned income." > Hutchins announced the election to a University Vice-Presidency of Wilbur Cheney Munnecke, who for four years has held...
Bald, grey-fringed, vigorous Dr. Cattell was a pacifist whose opponents always knew they had been in a fight. In 1917, after Columbia University's Nicholas ("Miraculous") Murray Butler had solemnly warned his facultymen against "seditious" behavior, Cattell promptly wrote Congress urging it not to send unwilling draftees to Europe. Butler fired him. Cattell fought back so fiercely that his house in Garrison-on-Hudson was nicknamed Fort Defiance. Cattell's good friend, Historian Charles Beard, quit the University. Cattell sued Columbia for $125,000, finally forced it to settle...
...Russia's war record landed a new job on the faculty of Robert Maynard Hutchins' University of Chicago. This would hardly relieve the pain of Notre Dame's president, Father Hugh O'Donnell. He got protests against his dismissal of McMahon from 29 Notre Dame facultymen, the Florida Catholic and other diocesan papers, U.S. philosophers...
Colgate's big job now is giving Navy preflight and other training to 650 cadets. (By July 1 there will be 1,083.) When the Navy chose Colgate as a preflight school, a dozen facultymen spent their Christmas holidays studying navigation. Others crammed mathematics, aerology, aircraft engines, flight principles, communications. Today many are teaching cadets what they themselves learned only a few weeks ago. Many still give peacetime courses...
...give his facultymen more time for "creative thought," Brandt rotated department chairmanships among them; they soon began to turn out more original research. He went to the Legislature, breezily asked for $452,000 to raise professors' salaries and build an industrial research laboratory. A legislator drawled: "Well, President Brandt . . ." "Call me Joe," flashed...