Word: longed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alexander R. Bright '19 talked informally at the get-together in Winthrop House, giving suggestions for pre-season conditioning. "You can beat Dartmouth this winter by getting those legs in shape for the bumps of the trails, and Harvard has a good chance this year to break the long string of Dartmouth victories...
Such an attitude comes like a breath of much- needed fresh air in an academic world grown somewhat musty with too much concern for the mechanical means of education and too little attention to the long-run ends. Though one can perhaps charge Mr. Frost and those of his kind with trying to sensationalize education, so passive has the intellectual role of college students become that it takes considerable effort to jar them out of the well-marked grooves in which they slide along and to force them to do independent thinking . . . Fed several times daily on a diet...
...took long to pass its many given points...
...that the whole problem has been permanently disposed of. Actually the controversy has merely proceeded into a second stage whose outcome will be as Harvard-shaking as that of the first. It has been recognized from the beginning that there were two more or less distinct issues involved. The long-run problem of flexibility in the system of appointments was debated and settled in spirited faculty meetings featured by ample journalistic spreads. But the immediate problem of the blow to Harvard's teaching by the dismissal of several assistant professors last June is at present being argued in undercover negotiations...
...settlement of the long-range issue can only be assayed as a victory for the "members of the opposition." Their basic charge was that the "eight years and up or out" tenure policy was stubbornly inflexible, and that if it were applied mechanically it would have sorry effects on Harvard teaching standards. The degree of flexibility which they advocated has now been incorporated into the tenure policy by the new system of swapping professorships between departments and by the faculty motion to approve frozen associate professorships. So far so good...