Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...FIRST REPORT OF THIS RESEARCH, PUBLISHED IN THE JUNE 1937 ISSUE OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE NAMED FOUR AUTHORS: DR. CHARLES A. TOMPKINS, MISS GRACE WASHBURN, DR. MATHEW WINTERS AND MYSELF. THE CONTRIBUTION OF EACH WAS INVALUABLE AND VITAL TO THE WHOLE UNDERTAKING; SINCE SCIENCE IS ADVANCED ONLY BY THE SEEKING OF THE TRUTH THIS ERROR SEEMS GRIEVOUS TO ME. IT IS UNFAIR TO THE CO-AUTHORS IN THAT IT DOES NOT GIVE THEM DUE CREDIT AND PLACES ME IN A POSITION WHERE I MAY BE MISJUDGED. AS A TEN-YEAR TIME READER...
Although the Report on Teachers' Advancement contains valuable suggestions, a study of the document as a whole gives a strong sense of disappointment. Appointed in the midst of the Walsh-Sweezy furore, the Student Council's committee was asked to investigate, besides "the relation of teaching and research as bases for choice and advancement of faculty members," such important topics as the social sciences trend and the worth of making departmental budgets more flexible...
...some degree, are Harvard's most crowded fields and promise to continue their growth. In these departments, too, the twin specter exists of a large group of young instructors eager to advance and of limited, permanent top faculty positions filled in large measure with young men. Further, as the report itself points out, University financial statements reveal that a "frozen" budget may be expected for some years, thus destroying the hope of increasing the number of permanent positions...
...seems clear, therefore, that any report on the advancement of teachers that fails to take into account the financial and departmental problems outlined above, all of which the committee recognizes "may well be" studied in another investigation, is altogether inadequate...
...report is on a similar indefinite plane. The suggestions for ad hoc committees to fill some of the permanent positions, and for the University to give its young men a clear understanding of what part research plays in promotion and just what constitutes research are extremely valuable. Yet, for the most part the latest product of the Student Council is inadequate...