Word: hudnut
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...combination like this is easily inflammable. The brilliant academician may buck under the reins of a lesser known dean, just as the Hudnut-Gropius arrangement flared up into an interdepartmental conflagration. But it is a risk well worth taking. Without a conservative dean, the school will never mend its financial foundations; without an original artist, it will never be worth maintaining as a graduate school. It will be another vocational school, grinding out competent architects instead of a theoritical fountainhead, enlarging knowledge in the fields of architecture and planning...
...selection of a new dean. There was a time, not too long ago, when the school was drafting the newest techniques and theories for the nation's architects and regional planners. It was a vigorous school then, constantly moving forward with unique courses and revolutionary projects. But while Dean Hudnut has sat back patiently, starting nothing a new administrator might not want to finish, other Universities have taken over the school's prestige and a steadily mushrooming inflation has made its endowment inadequate. With less money to spend, Hudnut has been slicing away courses and professors. Each year, the Design...
...refused to comment on the report that there had been personal antagenism between Hudnut and himself, but added "So far as Design 1 is concerned, I can not see why it is thought to be more expensive than any other of our courses. The only salaries involved were those of an assistant professor and his own assistant...
Design 1 had been created as a two-year experiment with a special grant of money from the University. When this fund ran out it was ordered discontinued by Hudnut, who called it too expensive and time-consuming...
Although no one has been named to follow Gropius as chairman, it is expected that Dean Hudnut will shortly appoint a temporary head of the department...