Word: tf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...m.p.h. C-5 is both bigger and faster than Russia's AN-22, until now the largest aircraft in operation. With a maximum payload of 265,000 Ibs. and a range, when fully loaded, of 2,875 miles, the Lockheed plane is powered by four General Electric fanjet TF-39s, the world's most powerful aircraft engines...
...Federation's leaders asked that teaching fellows contact professors in each department and urge them to plead the TF's case privately with John P. Elder, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...
After circulating the requests among Harvard's 900 TF's, the Federation submitted them, with 500 signatures, to Dean Ford and John P. Elder, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...
What stung the Federation's leaders most sharply, however, was the dean's assertion that TF's are not teachers, who exchange their services for pay, but primarily Ph.D. candidates whose teaching is a supplement to their education. The underlying premise of the Federation had always been that a teaching fellow is as much a member of the Faculty as a full professor. If a teaching fellow is merely a student picking up some financial aid as he learns, the Federation can hardly claim to be bargaining for a group of teachers working for Harvard...
...Federation, which grew out of a series of meetings among teaching fellows this fall, set itself up as a formal organization Feb.16. At that meeting, the TF's drew up the petition, and have occupied themselves primarily since then in a campaign to accumulate signatures...