Word: presentable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ideas, a few of which may live to enrich a later generation." Since the work of scholars can only be judged by their "long-run significance," he remarked that "they may be permitted to interpose at times a caveat to all who would regard the imperious demands of the present as sure guides for the future...
...into application with remorseless retroactivity. In at least two clear instances men of undisputed capacity as scholars and as teachers have been given terminating appointments on the sole ground that they have already served the University more than eight years and that the budget does not permit their present advance to permanent rank...
Respect for the spirit of your recommendations as to tenure would seem to have required that scholars of unquestioned capacities who have served the University more than ten years should be offered the opportunity of permanent appointment--either at their present salaries or without promise of advance beyond the normal salary of an associate professor--even if such action were to be regarded as exceptional...
...present course of University policy suggests the possibility of an ironic solution to "the problem of the younger teacher" at Harvard: namely, not to have any younger teachers at all at Harvard, except those who are still seeking their doctorates...
That this possibility is not chimerical is shown by the present situation in the Department of Economics. In 1935-36 a large part of the undergraduate teaching in this department was being done by four assistant professors and eight faculty instructors--that is, by the experienced non-permanent members of the staff. Since that time a few of these men have gained permanent positions, others have departed for jobs elsewhere. In the meantime the intermediate ranks which they once occupied have not been filled. The result is striking: where there were four assistant professors and eight faculty instructors, there will...