Word: forded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this year, Elder and Dean Ford had rejected the Federation's request for a pay increase averaging $800 per year, the abolition of different junior and senior rates of pay, and a new definition of the teaching fellow's work measurement unit, the fifth...
After circulating the requests among Harvard's 900 TF's, the Federation submitted them, with 500 signatures, to Dean Ford and John P. Elder, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...
...dean's reply, delivered late in May, was almost totally negative. Ford and Elder rejected the pay increase outright. They offered two new proposals on the junior-senior rate differential, both of which meant that the teaching fellows might lose as much as they would gain. Only with respect to work load measurement were the deans conciliatory, and even there they would accept only adjustments within the old system...
...their last action before vacation, the teaching fellows sent a strongly worded letter back to Ford and Elder, expressing their dissatisfaction "when our real position as teachers and employees of Harvard is not recognized and when our reasoning is given only cursory notice or ignored entirely...
...translate what they hope is widespread discontent into effective pressure on the University. The pressure could take a number of forms. Mildest of all would be a simple restatement of the Federation's three demands, perhaps in more emphatic terms. But it is hard to see why Ford and Elder should find the same arguments which left them cold in May convincing in October...