Word: subjected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hundred and seventy typewriters subject the alphabet to every conceivable humiliation in attempts to show President Conant that their owners will be scholars by 40. Scholarship, research, productive scholarship--these terms have undermined Harvard indifference to a larger extent than the Revolution, the Civil War, or the National Student League...
...scientific appointments the meaning is obvious. If a man is going to teach a technical study well, the President believes he must have worked in a laboratory. To satisfy the Administration that he will be a good teacher at 40, he must produce a bibliography of papers on his subject...
...find a standard which will give Harvard insurance against the declining ability of brilliant teachers as they advance past 40 in the classroom. He does believe that any man on the Faculty of Arts must show that he can talk constructively on something. Certainly critical comment on his subject such as essays, books, reviews, etc., will keep him alive to his subject, not research in the true sense of the term. The difference between this and the science standard is difficult to understand, but fundamental...
...Conant holds these views with which the writer credits him, he is mistaken not to disclose them. No one knows what he does think and his remarks on the subject form an inconsequential part of his speeches. He is responsible at present for the Faculty attitude which is not conductive to his purpose. A speech on scholarship would do little to restrict the flexibility of his freedom and would aid immeasurably a sane discussion...
...three years the course has been listed as "to be omitted next year" and this is the last opportunity for men in the Class of 1936 to study the subject...