Word: ferguson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dean Ferguson's memorandum appears to assume that the University has no choice in the matter. It treats the existing policy as the dictate of an implacable budget rather than as the result of a choice among alternatives. At least one alternative, it must be evident, there is. The University may seek to assure itself only that it is going to be able to pay the prospective appointee his salary as an associate professor, leaving to the future the question of whether it either can or wants to appoint him to a full professorship. On financial grounds there would appear...
...basic logical fault of the policy assumed as inescapable in Dean Ferguson's memorandum is that it undertakes to postulate present action on the basis of essentially unpredictable future events. Out of an apparent overweening fear of the future, it forges gratuitous shackles for the present...
...Mayo, Ferguson Named...
...have been named to the Administrative Board of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences: Lawrence Shaw Mayo '10, acting dean of the School; and William S. Ferguson, dean of the Faculty, replacing George D. Birkhoff '05, who resigned as Faculty dean last spring...
...word document, drawn up last June by Dean Ferguson, the Administration has defended the discharge of the ten assistant professors as a budgetary necessity. Furthermore, the memorandum contends that the Administration leaned over backward in an attempt to retain as many assistant professors as possible...