Word: numbers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shells, the largest number of boats Tom Bolles has ever seen racing together, swept down the Charles under clear skies yesterday in a gala crew regatta, the last event in this fall's formal outdoor rowing season...
...article in the forthcoming issue of the Progressive, the head of the Slavic department takes several sharp pokes at the Administration's tenure policy. He recommends "some latitude in the number of associate professors allowed to demonstrably understaffed departments" as the "most rational solution," and one which will not unbalance the budget...
...morning the matter was first reported by metropolitan daily newspapers (hitherto Time has been the only publication to touch it), and it is certain that the coming salvos of publicity will force the Administration to play a different sort of game. Moreover, there has been intensified action on a number of University fronts; although none of the recently issued statements alters one whit the positions which have been previously taken...
...period of time. From this point of view, it is possible to construct a neat set of figures which shows that the budget has declined and consequently has necessitated a drastic climination of men in the lower ranks; and which--by hook or crook--also shows that the total number of men in the middle group will not be reduced in the process...
Flexibility is and must be the keynote of the demands of Administration opponents. They are not slaves to figures as is the Administration for they realize that figures obliterate all human and educational values. They are not demanding a certain fixed number of additional "frozen" associates. Rather they are asking that the sole criteria for permanence on Harvard's teaching staff be teaching needs and the capabilities of the men involved. Such a request may sound wildly impossible in view of fixed and unalterable budgetary limitations. But the answer--the panacea--is flexibility in the system of appointment...