Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...question raised by the TIME story is this: What is the nature of the faculty tenure problem which has confronted the administration at Harvard, and how has the administration tried to solve that problem? The answer might be summarized as follows...
These men had hardly been placed with the University on the first rung of the faculty ladder when the depression hit. At that time, every university administrator was reluctant to do anything which would indicate that because of hard times young men should be displaced. The problem of meeting the future was, therefore, postponed...
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...
...University had two alternatives when faced with this problem. Either these young men could be kept permanently at a much lower salary than that of their contemporaries at Harvard, thus creating a special class in the faculty (which would be out of accord with Harvard traditions) ; or else the policy outlined above had to be adopted. No one has had less than a year's notice of the University's intention not to reappoint...
...TIME knows of no factual errors in its story, apart from the statement that Professor Burbank quit Harvard (he quit the chairmanship of the economics department). TIME amply indicated that Harvard's "young man" problem is a tough one. TIME sticks to its main point: that in dealing with the problem, Harvard has caused widespread dissatisfaction among its faculty and students...