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Armed with what one member of the group called "a surprising unanimity" among the junior faculty, the eight took their proposals before the Board of Tutors in April, and to the full Department in May. But at the Department meeting, the reform movement hit a snag. Oscar Handlin, chairman of the Department, shelved the proposals without letting any of them come to a vote and announced that he would set up a committee to study the issues the tutors had raised...
...factual premise is incorrect. The Department of History has never lost a promising young man or failed to appoint anyone it wished from outside because of the lack of a slot for them. Oscar Handlin Chairman, Department of History
...Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History was established last month to "provide superior conditions for research and teaching." But the organization of the center, as outlined by Oscar Handlin, its newly-appointed director, makes it evident that University officials have expended far more energy in planning the center's libraries and fellowship programs than in determining how the center will affect undergraduate education. That is certainly contrary to the wishes of the late legal historian for whom the center is named...
...Handlin has indicated that the number of instructorships and assistant professorships in American History will be increased by the bequest. These young post-doctoral students will not only staff courses taught by senior faculty members but will also for the first time be able to offer courses of their own. This would seem to satisfy even Charles Warren, but it is doubtful that appointing junior faculty can solve the History Department's major problem: the History Department, among others, recently has had great difficulty retaining junior faculty members until their appointments expire...
...accept that curiously inverted, if unintentional racism which insists that a free society is appropriate for Caucasians but that communism is good enough for Asians," Handlin said. He added that only firm resistance will counter Chinese expansion...