Word: musts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some excuse can be made for the Fine Arts Department action in dismissing Feild in that it must use the University's tenure system. But Feild was unique in his attitude toward the subject which he taught, which is shown by his great popularity, and the "progressive" courses he gave evidently filled a need in a moribund department, out of touch with present realities. It is doubtful if his shoes will be filled and his work continued since the sun withered him in this soil and showed it was barren. A good idea and a good man are lost...
...establishment of a "pickaback scholar" plan at Vassar is much to be hoped for . . . As members of an educational institution we must surely recognize the benefits of this new plan and encourage its inception here. --Vassar Miscellany News
...negative quantity. For the baiters are on the march, and the shout of "Communistic professors" again echoes over the land. There is little which can do more to harm the teaching profession than such recurrent campaigns. Not only do they destroy the faith which the general public must have in its teachers, but they also provoke the over-zealous watch-dogs of legislative chambers to blows at academic freedom. There is but one word for the whole episode: regrettable...
...must also be recognized by the general public. For, until it is, teaching standards will remain low, and teachers will be selected because they attend Sunday School or marry politicians' cousins. Only when the teacher is generally conceived as a technical expert in the art of teaching will this type of teacher be injected into the veins of secondary education. And only then will secondary schools gain the new life which President Conant sees as essential for the perpetuation of democracy...
Although agreeing with you when you urge "a constructive attitude toward American cooperation in the world," I must take exception to certain parts of the Friday editorial: those portions which refer to the Harvard petition to lift the Embargo...