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...prepared to take care of the tidal wave of students now sweeping toward its schools and colleges? Absolutely not, says Harvard Historian Oscar Handlin in the Atlantic Monthly-and he presents a gloomy set of statistics to prove his point. The teacher shortage alone has become so acute, says he, that a whole generation faces the prospect of a totally inadequate education...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Danger of Disaster | 9/3/1956 | See Source »

...nation's elementary and secondary schools employed just over one million teachers. By 1959, says Handlin, they will need 600,000 more. But since "well over 50,000 retire or resign each year, the schools will find it necessary to recruit almost three-quarters of a million new teachers in the next three years. In addition, the 200,000 or so instructors now on the staffs of American universities will have to multiply themselves in the next twelve years to at least 450,000, through the recruitment of no fewer than 25,000 new faculty members each year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Danger of Disaster | 9/3/1956 | See Source »

Professors James J. Lingane, Oscar Handlin, and Walter J. Bate will become new departmental chairmen, while Professor Sterling Dow will take the chair of a permanent faculty committee, Dean Bundy announced yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bundy Announces Four New Chairmen | 4/11/1956 | See Source »

Lingane, professor of Chemistry, will head that department, succeeding E. Bright Wilson, Jr. Handlin, professor of History, will become Acting Chairman of that department, replacing Myron P. Gilmore. Bate, associate professor of English and present Chairman of the Faculty Committee on Degrees in History and Literature, will succeed Herschel C. Baker as Chairman of the English Department...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bundy Announces Four New Chairmen | 4/11/1956 | See Source »

...That just shows that Americans don't know their history," Handlin said. He indicated that Boston, with sections almost as they were in colonial days, should be rated first instead of Washington, a much newer city. Few of the old buildings in New York and Philadelphia are left, he added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Supports Boston Indignation | 3/23/1956 | See Source »

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