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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...assistant professors, and they have given a complete explanation of their stand. Out of the complicated welter of figures and claims, only one fact remains as clear as it was before: that teaching and tutorial instruction in several departments have been seriously harmed. They have been harmed because the number of "middle-men"--who are the backbone of tutorial and teaching has been reduced by the firing of the assistant professors...
...Under the old tenure plan, they might roughly have been classed as the assistant professors plus the associate professors. When the Committee of Eight proposed to abolish the rank of assistant professor, it was not proposing to reduce the middle group to that extent. Instead, it intended that this number be held constant, and that for every assistant professorship abolished, a new associate professorship should be created. The money to pay these new associates was, in effect, to come from savings arising out of a cut in the average salary of full and associate professors...
Second, Mr. Conant may intend to expand the ranks of the associate professors by the appropriate number sometime in the future. However, he would fill these new positions by new men coming up from below--men who are as yet lost in the maze of instructorships or who have not yet arrived at Harvard--instead of by choosing from among the ten assistant professors. Then in effect he is saying that he expects to find better men for these jobs in the future than he can find at present among...
...wishing to be listed in the CRIMSON telephone directory who have had their numbers changed, have new phones, wish to have students other than their roommates listed under their number, or who do not live in the Houses should turn in their numbers at the CRIMSON office immediately. All others in the Houses need...
...Committee of Eight's report on tenure, adopted in principle by President Connat last spring, envisioned the gradual abolition of the rank of assistant professor, and a considerable increase in the number of permanent appointments at the permanent rank of associate professor...