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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...excellent example of this policy in action is the social relations field. The Social Relations Department was established after the war to include the now extinct Sociology Department and portions of the Anthropology and Psychology Departments. Before the war, these three departments together averaged 237 concentrators, or 6.6 percent of all concentrators. In the last three years, the social relations field has averaged 547 concentrators a year, 13.2 percent of the present total--exactly double the pre-war figure...
...field had 12 permanent appointees and the fractional services of nine or ten others. The present field has 15 permanent appointments. It will get has no more within the forseeable future because the Faculty of Arts and Sciences is not convinced "the Social Relations boom" is permanent...
...social relations field maintains its high number of concentrators, it can do so only at the expense of other departments, since the enrollment of the College has been fixed by administrative decree. But it will not increase its allotment of permanent appointments at the expense of other departments. It will have to wait for new money, in the form of either endowed chairs or gifts to the University for unrestricted purposes...
...other disadvantage to adherence to the system is rigidity of the structure and distribution of the Faculty. The rapid growth in social relations is an example of a field which has not been given an allotment of permanent appointees comparable to its size...
...there only a limited number of course possible in any given field? Or do department merely split up the accessible knowledge their fields into the number of courses which their teachers are capable of giving...