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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With over 500 names already on its petition, the Committee to Save Harvard Education has launched a new protest to the Administration's policy of reducing the number of assistant professors, Irwin Ross '40, spokesman for the committee, announced yesterday...
...objected that a Book Center would merely double the House libraries. But among the average nine thousand books are found only course texts with few additional volumes. The difference between this number and the one hundred thousand books contained in the Center is a measure of the greater amount of material that is to be located there. While House libraries serve only as academic filling stations, the Book Center would be an educational super-service station...
...What is in question is solely the appointment of a larger number of associate professors to compete as equals, over a period of years, for a lesser number of full professorships. Under such a policy, no one would be tagged as destined from the outset to be given a full professorship, and none need be tagged as destined to be denied it. Under such a policy, disappointments when they come would be gradual, and would be founded at least on permanence rather than prediction. We cannot believe that the avoidance of such disappointments ought to be the lodestar...
...associate professors. By the same token the proposed policy would better rather than lessen the chances of younger teachers not yet up for permanent appointment. This would be true, indeed, even if the percentage of associate professors staying on at the University remained unchanged. For an increase in the number of permanent appointees in the younger ages could in no event decrease the rate of exodus or advancement. The rate remaining the same, the number of new permanent places on the contrary would somewhat increase...
...unscrupulous small town lawyer. By the time it is over Micajah Corn has lost nearly everything a human being can lose and stay alive; the company, inevitably, has got what it was after; the lawyer's veering ambitions are disposed of, and Mr. Cheney has done a number of things which even better equipped novelists might envy...