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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...these men are challenging and often inspiring. The Departments are usually too rigidly committed to the idea that what is best for the scholar is best for Harvard and forget or are afraid to admit that scholarship is not the only worthwhile creative pursuit. As a result, artists and authors are more apt to visit Harvard for a year and give extra-curricular talks, rather than courses where their ideas can be given a closer discussion and where students can exchange ideas with the artist...
Every department is guilty of what the Committee of Eight long ago noted as an "internal tendency to conform." Departments all too often recommend for promotion those men who most nearly come up to their rigid motions of their standards. And it is still an all too common practice for an aging professor to pick a fair haired young boy out of GSAS and groom his as his successor...
While the sciences are having trouble keeping their good men at the teaching fellow. level, the other Departments are first being hurt at the instructor level. The promising Harvard instructor can usually count on getting a higher paying position, often with tenure, at another institution...
...appears to each." While it is highly dubious that a University Professor will sit with a freshman discussing truth, it is possible that in the House dining halls, in an occasional meeting during office hours, and hopefully at an open house, a professor might chat with students more often than at present...
Much more supervision exists in the College's only other gradeless instruction program, tutorial. Often very valuable, tutorial is sometimes offered in circumstances which destroy its effectiveness...