Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Incentive, it is said, is a necessary prerequisite for diligence. Since only two of the admittedly diligent History and Literature tutors of the Thirties were rewarded with permanent appointments to the Harvard faculty, it is assumed that incentive is now lacking for the History and Lit staff...
Young tutors interested in History and Lit find the avenue for advancement there at best uncertain, and hence devote most of their time to a department. As a result, History and Lit is populated by a part-time, transient staff that is too large for a cohesive discipline...
...future there will be "no restrictions as to sex," Shenefield said. In a three hour meeting the administrative staff of WHRB approved by a two-thirds majority an amendment to the by-laws of the Harvard Radio Broadcasting Co. Inc., which would provide "voting rights and eligibility for executive positions on equal terms for Harvard and Radcliffe members...
History and Lit was now thought of as a field for an elite--a reputation that many concentrators and tutors have since tried to live down--but more important was the esprit de corps of the tutorial staff. It was a small, brilliant group, led by Matthiessen and Perry Miller; there was a feeling that they were doing something unique and important in the Harvard curriculum. There were disagreements, to be sure--some tutorial meetings ended in fistfights--but enough agreement existed on central principles and objectives to make History and Lit a great, cohesive field...
Professor Walter Bate, formerly chairman of the Committee on History and Literature and now head of the English department, feels that the increased size of the tutorial staff is the main factor. As recently as 1947-48 there were only nine tutors; there are now twenty-nine. It is difficult for twenty-nine people to get around a table at the weekly tutorial luncheons to work out something of a common point-of-view...