Word: newe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...University adopted a new system of appointments to full and associate professorships--the two ranks with permanent tenure. Its conception and its mechanics were largely the work of William C. Graustein '11, professor of Mathematics, an outstanding geometrician. Graustein was an extraordinary individual who brought to administrative problems a precise and mathematical approach. He made out the course catalogue each year, almost as a hobby, for he enjoyed wrestling with its major difficulty: to schedule at different hours the courses which are most likely to interest any particular student, while at the same time not giving any teacher too rough...
...this method a department whose "historical" size is 34 permanent members appoints a new one every year, regardless of whether none, one, or ten members, has retired during the year. A department of 17 permanent members appoints a new one every two years; a department of two every 17 years; etc. In case of sudden death or excessively premature resignation or retirement, a "call appointment" is made, which does not affect the periodical replenishment of the staff...
...new system won favor with the administration of the University and with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for three reasons. First, it makes possible long-range budgeting by the departments and the Faculty. Second, after it has had time to take effect, it protects a department from having suddenly to replace a large portion of its permanent staff in one year or in two or three years because of bunching of retirements or deaths. And finally, it gives a man who wants a permanent appointment to any department an exact date on which to expect a vacancy to occur...
Each department requires application of afferent standards. Courses in the Social science seem to demand less personal contact between student and professor. History, Government and Social Relations courses fill New Lecture Hall, Hunt Hall, and the ground floor Lecture room of Radcliffe's Longfellow Hall...
...with at least a little imagination. It is conceivable that someday you could flick the dial on your radio and hear something like this "...so just send in two box tops and 10 cents, ladies, and you will receive a neatly packaged, simplified version of Professor Kluckhohn's stimulating new text, "The Curious Habits of Navaho Married Couples.'" But it is also conceivable that radio could be a very strong educational force--especially for adults and isolated communities...