Word: rankness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MAIER HOPED to be promoted to the tenured rank of professor. Because he had already taught for more than five years, he was not eligible for a three-year term appointment. Before the Dunlop Report, the scholar shinnying up the Harvard Great Chain of Being served five years as an instructor and then, if his contract was renewed, another three years as an assistant professor. A regulation of the American Association of University Professors requires universities to grant tenure to academics who have taught at the school for eight years. So, after serving his initial eight years, the assistant professor...
When should an assistant professor be made an associate professor? The Dunlop Report is deliberately vague on that point. "Appointments to this rank should be limited to those who merit serious consideration for promotion to tenure," the Dunlop Report recommended. Elaborating on this point, Dunlop said last week, "There are two requirements. First, a person must be of a quality, given a further period of development, likely to show the kind of quality we are looking for in tenure appointments. Second, there must be reasonable prospects of a permanency...
WHATEVER HIS reasons, Dunlop last Fall vetoed the Government Department's recommendation to promote two assistant professors, Robert L. Jervis and James R. Kurth, to the rank of associate professor. You can only promote one, Dunlop told Department chairman James Q. Wilson. When Wilson then presented a Department recommendation to promote Jervis and let Kurth go, supporters of the more radical Kurth protested vehemently. After a couple of months of bickering, Dunlop finally agreed to let the two promotions go through...
Besides emphasis on sports for the masses, there is a continuous sifting of East German talents that begins in some parts of the country at preschool age. In elementary school, sports rank in importance with the three Rs; four hours' participation a week is compulsory. Most schoolchildren from the age of six to 18 also participate in the Sparta-ciades, a series of sports contests on local, regional and national levels that culminates in a kind of domestic Olympic Games every two years...
BUSINESS executives are usually the most zealous supporters of a Republican President, but they show considerable reluctance about Richard Nixon. In 1968 the President won the votes of 84% of the officers (vicepresidential rank or higher) who run the nation's 500 largest industrial companies. He may well win as many this year, but largely because the executives see no acceptable alternative. James Howell, vice president of First National Bank of Boston, says that many of his high-ranking colleagues, "being typically New England businessmen, would like to support Nixon, but they find it a damn difficult...