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...weeks after the tutors proposed their reforms, Oscar Handlin, then chairman of the Department, announced that he was forming a committee of senior faculty members to study proposals...
...Handlin's committee reported back to the Department on Oct. 13, recommending the elimination of sophomore tutorial and adding a proposal for junior generals. The senior faculty approved the report with only minor changes...
...Association of Manufacturers finds it far more effective, says a spokesman, "to send the head of one member plant into the office of a Senator than to send him a petition full of names of all the heads of our member plants." Of campus-circulated petitions, Harvard Historian Oscar Handlin, a confirmed non-signer, says: "I think they have no effect whatsoever except to let people blow off steam. In the past, the academic community was more responsible and therefore more effective...
...American Association of University Professors reports that Harvard Faculty members have the highest average salary in the country (more than $17,500 a year), but the American Council on Education decides that the University of California at Berkeley is a better school. Oscar Handlin, chairman of the History Department, agrees to set up a committee for studying tutor's proposed changes but neglects to say when or who will be on it. The Med School lightens its first-year students work load. Summer school applications are up 300 per cent. Freshmen are assigned to Houses, but almost all of them...
Acting Department Chairman Oscar Handlin's decision, on the face of it, may not appear too unreasonable; he simply promised to set up a committee to study proposals advanced by the junior faculty. Unfortunately, Handlin did not announce the names of the members of the committee, nor the time when it would begin to meet. Cynics who slyly predict that the Department will take as little action as possible for as long as possible now have substantial supporting evidence...