Word: givens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Popularizing the symptoms of cancer--this the writer does well--and keeping the public up to date on research work are two very important jobs that modern scientific journalism must do. But the public must be competently informed; the average reader takes such romantic descriptions as the authoress has given and becomes convinced that he has his finger on the pulse of scientific progress...
These are the reasons: (1) instruction is given by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, not by a college faculty, which means the College's needs are not all-important; (2) the number of permanent appointments allowed each department is frozen at its "historical" size...
...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...
...some combination of the number of its contractors and of students in its courses, the great variety which Harvard offers, and which considered by many one of its greatest strength would suffer drastically--if not be too destroyed. Also the next vacancy in any department could be summarily cancelled given to another department, instructors assistant professors could have no sense security at Harvard, and they would be quite to snap up permanent positions elsewhere...
...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...