Word: questioners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crux of the debate on procedure has been the question of whether the departments served as information-gathering groups for the administration or whether they made suggestions as a body. In some quarters it has been held that the decisions have emanated from above rather than from the department...
...whatever the solution, it absolutely must be governed by educational considerations. The question is not primarily one of the budget or even of justice to college teachers, but rather of how undergraduates can be given the most efficient instruction. For this reason, the best solution seems to lie in readjustment of the Administration's policy toward associate professors...
This is only part of the treaty which could end the present battle, for there is a vital procedural question involved. It is the matter of democracy in the conduct of Harvard's affairs, and it can be appreciated only by surveying fully a background which includes the formal democracy of President Eliot and the benevolent dictatorship of President Lowell. Now the Faculty, stung by the Administration's hasty and somewhat arbitrary action in the acceptance of the Committee of Eight's report, is once more demanding a greater voice in management. Although the final result may come only...
...critic of poetry. The history of English literature affords numerous examples of this happy marriage of creative faculties; unfortunately, we have comparatively few men today who have given sufficient evidence of their abilities in both capacities to warrant their being accepted as inheritors of that tradition. None, however, would question Mark Van Doren's right to be so described...
...investigating this copious stream of propaganda coming in by the back door, it is only natural to question the motives of the speakers. Those inclined to a leftist point of view will have the answer pat. Manning is the leader of an upperclass church, the Episcopalians being the cream of the wealthy fashionables of New York, and so he inevitably bespeaks their strong Anglophile sentiments. They will see in the college presidents the tools of their gold-plated corporations, serving to present the demands of unbridled-capitalism in the best light. Maybe this view cannot be dismissed in every case...