Word: research
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ARTICLE CAPTIONED "AN APPLE A DAY" WHICH APPEARED IN TIME, FEB. 28 REPORTING RESEARCH ON THE BACTERICIDAL ACTION OF PECTIN GAVE THE FALSE IMPRESSION THAT THE CREDIT FOR THIS WORK SHOULD BE GIVEN TO ME ALONE...
...University to disregard either teaching or research would be robbing Peter to pay Paul," says the report, and goes on to point out that in other colleges they "generally place more emphasis on teaching than research in their criteria for appointment and advancement...
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...
...committee, however, decided to concentrate its efforts on "teaching and research," simply side-stepping the other questions. Budgetary problems and the trend to social sciences are closely related, for History, Government, and Economics in particular, and English to 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...
...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...