Word: feild
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last few years, loud have been the critics-both faculty and student-about the way Dr. Conant handles men. One after another, popular young teachers have been fired, from Economics Instructors John Raymond Walsh and Alan R. Sweezy two years ago to Art Instructor Robin D. Feild last spring. Basic reason for the firings was a slump in Harvard's income from its investments, resulting in a tighter budget. But facultymen complained that President Conant was a budget autocrat, that he used a slide-rule formula in dealing out money to the various departments. Students grumbled because they believed...
...Administration, however, did not answer the petitions. Even a Student Council resolution urging Feild's reappointment brought no word from the President's offices in University Hall. Today Harvard undergraduates are as far from having any say in the administration of their college as they were in the seventeenth century, when they rioted against horse-meat in Commons
...recent establishment of a fellowship for the study of modern art is a hollow mockery, when the one man (Feild) that can save the department from its past must go." However stimulating a teacher he may be, Professor Feild is obviously not the only man that can improve the department. The fellowship for the study of modern art is not a "hollow mockery" but will certainly help in the consideration of art in relation to the present...
...recommending that assistant professor Feild be reappointed, the Council said that his loss was "depriving the students at Harvard of a more complete understanding of the Fine Arts," and that he filled a definite need for "excellent teaching in the theory of visual arts." Moreover, a petition signed by 80 per cent of the Fine Arts concentrators called Feild's non-reappointment "a serious blow to the teaching of Fine Arts," and warned that "with the loss of Mr. Feild the Department (Fine Arts) is in danger of becoming one-sided...
Near the end of a year replete with such academic controversies as teaching vs research, tutoring vs daily work, Walsh-Sweezy-Feild vs permanent tenure and appointments, it is fitting that the Student Council should blossom forth with a report on Education at Harvard. One cannot but feel, as long as there are already so many whited sepulchres elbowing one another in obvious scholastic and social discomfort in this friendly-or-feudal community, that maybe the Council has hit upon the whole root of the evil--for if Harvard is not essentially designed for education, three centuries of Faculty...