Word: instructorship
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Singeing Adolf's Whiskers. As the Battles of Germany and Russia strung on, the British even began talking seriously of invading the Continent. Tom Wintringham, Spain-trained guerrilla artist who recently resigned his instructorship in the Home Guard because he considered the War Office too stodgy, wrote: "The British Army wants action. . . . We should hit Hitler now that he is busy." The News Chronicle headlined: TOO QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT. The careful New Statesman and Nation editorialized: "If the invasion of the Continent is ever to be possible, today, when Germany's best fighters and bombers...
...white man on his uncle's 200,000 acres. But his career since then has been academic: as head of the English department at Oklahoma A. & M. and, since 1925, at the University of Texas in Austin, where he was the first native Texan to get above an instructorship without a Ph.D...
...Finally, as to the criteria of promotion, the Committee does not feel that it would be wise to recommend positively that excellence as a tutor be a main qualification for promotion to a Faculty instructorship and permanent tonure. But the Committee does recommend that the proposal be given serious consideration; it is certainly the most important of the proposals for increasing the effectiveness of tutorial instruction...
According to the Report of the Committee of Eight on Tenure, the College can given "a man four years as a teaching fellow, three annual appointments, and possibly a Faculty instructorship." The Teachers' Union Committee pointed out that by keeping tutors here as long as possible in these three capacities, the University can build up a large body of experienced tutors...
...general, the report urged that Departments place more emphasis on the tutorial work of Faculty members. Although the Committee did not come out flatly in favor of making excellence as a tutor the main qualification of promotion to a Faculty instructorship and permanent tenure, it recommended that "the proposal be given serious consideration...