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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard's President Conant for his policies in the "hiring & firing" of young faculty members. Aside from several errors in the TIME story, among them that Professor Burbank quit the University (he did not), it seems to me that the story fails to make a fair attempt to present both sides of a controversial issue...
President Conant assumed office in 1933 with this situation confronting him. Over a period of six years, it has been the purpose oi the present administration to explore every avenue for solving the problem. After a study of the departments in which the crowding of the lower ranks was most acute, the administration decided that unless there was a future opening for a young instructor he must seek a position elsewhere after a period of apprenticeship. An impartial committee of eight professors appointed in 1937 to study this matter arrived at essentially the same conclusion as the administration. Their report...
...that it will not be necessary for her actively and under arms, to help the cause of democracy. You will, by remaining a great and friendly neutral do more to preserve the spirit of democracy, and do more to help the world to mend itself after the present trouble is over, if you yourselves remain untainted by the febrile emergencies of war making...
Senator Mihai's star birthday present was an $18,000 Mercedes-Benz sport car capable of 115 m.p.h. King Carol also gave Mihai's girl friend a decoration. The Order of Cultural Merit went to Helen Malxa, attractive and always well-chaperoned daughter of one of Rumania's richest industrialists. Anxious to damp scandal, Court functionaries maintained last week that the "platonic summer romance" of Mihai and Helen is now over. A few months ago they claimed that "His Royal Highness and Miss Malxa have never...
...opponents of the Administration can simply ignore these figures, because they are looking at the problem from the point of view of a few departments taken at the present moment. Even if the College as a whole will have enough middle-groupers at some time in the blushing future, that does not help English, Government, or Biology now. The recent dismissals have hog-tied and rolled these departments. And the fact remains that--regardless of figures--this blow to education could have been avoided by a measure of flexibility in the appointment of associate professors and a willingness to appoint...