Word: presented
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...generally recognized that the present haphazard diversity of procedure frequently results in confusion, unfairness, and lowered standards. In a matter so vital to Harvard's scholarly reputation there seems to good reason why the slightest mystery or uncertainly should prevail. While no system is immune to some measure of abuse or exploitation, we believe that it is possible to establish a tenure system and a democratic procedure, based upon the principle of Departmental autonomy, which will do much to eliminate the uncertainties and inequities of the present methods...
...substitution of a standard three-year term will eliminate the grave uncertainly of tenure under which annual instructors now suffer, and does not involve any marked departure from present practice since most annual instructors are now reappointed at least twice...
Calling for drastic reform of the present system, the second group of recommendations includes the election of department heads by all members of the department, and asks that elected departmental committees be set up for the purpose of "investigating and recommending men for appointment, promotion, or termination of appointment...
...Zauberflote (Berlin Philharmonic, Sir Thomas Beecham conducting, with Tiana Lemnitz. Erna Berger, Helge Roswaenge, Gerhard Hüsch and other artists; Victor: 2 volumes, 3-7 sides). The 18th-Century Masonic symbolism ol Mozart's great, quaint, rollicking fantasy-opera The Magic Flute is pretty vague to present-day audiences. But the music is some of the most beautiful Mozart wrote. Its first complete recording, less perfectly tooled but more spectacular than the Glyndebourne Don Giovanni (TIME, Oct. 3), is the record of the month...
...Institute's scientists conclude that Democracy, Fascism and Communism in their present forms contain so many frustrations that unless they reform, all three forms of society face the danger of popular revolt...