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...Cambridge Union of University Teachers is committed to the principle that the highest degree of professional competence is the only safe guide in appointment and promotion at Harvard. It believes that this principle is best served by a fixed system of tenure, and by a Departmental procedure in which the ability of every candidate is carefully evaluated and his selection democratically passed upon by members of his Department...
...Automatic increases" are by no means always justified. In general, we prefer to have the University economize, if necessary, in the salaries of the highest paid ranks in order to enhance the security and provide a better living wage for its younger men, and to maintain in the higher ranks the sense of competition which is so keen in the lower...
...Joseph Hague Jr. After eight years of dawdling, he never did get a degree. In 1936 he managed to get admitted to the New Jersey bar. Last fortnight, events in the politically throttled State of New Jersey conspired to place Frank Hague Jr., 34, on that state's highest bench (Errors & Appeals) as a lay member at $9,000 a year. The events: 1) loaded with mortgages on properties from which high local taxes had driven business, a big Jersey City bank failed (TIME, Feb. 27); 2) a county judge resigned his $15,000-a-year job to become...
...Sixty-nine percent of all rural homes have radios, highest sectional percentage, 96%, prevailing on the Pacific Coast, lowest, 53%, in the South. Of the rural radio families, 82.1% have automobiles, 16.5% of them with radios. Some farmers have sets in barns, on tractors and even in backhouses...
Here may be seen what is probably the worlds best phonograph, incorporating refinements developed by Harvard engineers to minimize record-wear and give sound reproduction into the highest frequencies...