Word: view
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the American point of view I think we should ask ourselves three questions: should we fight someone else's war? Can we defend ourselves if we stay out? What will probably be the not results in the spread of nihilism here if we enter another devastating European...
...view of the possibility that hostilities might cease before the end of the current academic year," Greene added, "the trustees will in the meantime register the names of any persons who wish to be regarded as possible candidates for a Henry Fellowship...
...Alumni are incontrovertible. But when they have been stated, they have proven absolutely nothing, because they are concerned with entirely different matters than are the Administration critics. They are looking at the College as a whole taken over a long period of time. From this point of view, it is possible to construct a neat set of figures which shows that the budget has declined and consequently has necessitated a drastic climination of men in the lower ranks; and which--by hook or crook--also shows that the total number of men in the middle group will not be reduced...
...opponents of the Administration can simply ignore these figures, because they are looking at the problem from the point of view of a few departments taken at the present moment. Even if the College as a whole will have enough middle-groupers at some time in the blushing future, that does not help English, Government, or Biology now. The recent dismissals have hog-tied and rolled these departments. And the fact remains that--regardless of figures--this blow to education could have been avoided by a measure of flexibility in the appointment of associate professors and a willingness to appoint...
...human and educational values. They are not demanding a certain fixed number of additional "frozen" associates. Rather they are asking that the sole criteria for permanence on Harvard's teaching staff be teaching needs and the capabilities of the men involved. Such a request may sound wildly impossible in view of fixed and unalterable budgetary limitations. But the answer--the panacea--is flexibility in the system of appointment to the rank of associate professor...