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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spring months of last year saw two sweeping statements on Harvard education--a report of a special Faculty committee recommending a new "area" plan of concentration, and a Student Council report advocating the introduction of five broad survey courses, to be compulsory. The first is slowly reaching the stage of reality, while the second, to the best of anyone's knowledge, is just gathering dust in the Publications Office...
...first, the Faculty committee that made the "area" report voiced the hope that their plan would be ready to go into effect by the fall of '40. This would have meant a colossal job, for the project is huge in scope, involving not only the outfields of three or more complicated combined fields of concentration, but the even more staggering task of setting up tutorial staffs for them. With the tenure problem taking much of the Faculty's time, it is not surprising to hear that the "area" project will have to wait another year...
President Seymour's Annual Report contains a section on a tenure program for Yale drawn up by a faculty committee. It appears Yale has adopted the Committee of Eight's Report lock, stock, and barrel. A few names have been changed, but underneath this veneer the same situations actually exist...
President Seymour's Report, however, seems to indicate that Yale, like Harvard, has closed her eyes to such a method of solving the tenure problem. This move is unfortunate not only in itself but because it furthers a policy made fashionable by Harvard. Strict adherence to actuarial tables as a criterion for appointments is scarcely in line with giving the best possible education available. No extensions of the budget are necessary to raise the level of instruction. The difficulty can be circumvented by a change in the inflexible promotion policy...
Like Harvard, Yale will henceforth govern all faculty promotions by a hard and fast "up or out" policy, President Charles Seymour has announced in his annual report...