Word: oneness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...One quarter of the College concentrates in the Natural Sciences; 42 percent of the permanent Faculty teaches in the Natural Sciences...
...university college" Harvard has many advantages over the independent college. The intellectual level of the community is higher. Specialists can be retained economically by being shared by the college and one or more graduate schools. Undergraduates can take seminars primarily for graduates, offered by graduate schools (This practice is much more common at Yale, where undergraduates major in such subjects as drama which are taught only at graduate schools...
...small degree upon number of students and concentrators. Endowments played a role: for instance, the Department of Semitic Languages and History had two chairs endowed for over $118,000. Although the department then offered only nine courses for a total of 38 undergraduates and graduates, to throw out one of the professors would have meant giving up completely a large endowment fund...
...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...
...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...