Word: springing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Cross is an old hand at this game. It was last spring that he began writing experimental news broadcasts in German for W2XAL, a non-commercial station owned and operated by the World-Wide Broadcasting Foundation...
Coming as it did at a time when most of Harvard was dazed by the sudden ending of the tenure of ten popular assistant professors, Professor Burbank's resignation last spring as chairman of the Economics department lent itself too easily to interpretation as a protest against the Administration's tenure policy. It is now clear as Professor Burbank says, that this was "an unjustified assumption." Professor Burbank, besides carrying one of the heaviest teaching loads in his department, has been the able administrator not only of the department but of its Board of Tutors and its large introductory course...
Associate Professor Charles H. Taylor has succeeded Professor Harold H. Burbank as chairman of the Division of History, Government and Economics. Professor Burbank's resignation last spring was believed to be in protest at the tenure policy of the Administration...
Much criticism has been leveled, heretofore, at President Conant for the methods he has employed to gain the ends outlined in other parts of the Committee's Report. His firing of ten Assistant Professors last spring because the Committee recommended the abolition of the position is a case in point. But here at least, both ends and means must be above all reproach...
...Middle Western college student talks to him about the rights of neutrals rather than about women. Other college students let him go as a bloody snob. The Boston city father labels him a terror, to be put down with tear-gas and billies on a balmy spring evening...