Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...programs will consist of discussions in German, French, and Italian covering "the American business situation, data on American politics, and an account of the American point of view on some important problems of foreign affairs," according to Professor Cross...
When war broke out, Spencer was officially informed by Cambridge that it was up to him whether or not he should go to England this Fall. But in view of unofficial Information that "there would be no one there to teach," he applied for a year's leave of absence from his new post, and was granted a one-year temporary appointment here...
Irwin Ross's leading article in the current number of the "Harvard Progressive" is one of greatest interest to the Harvard community. Discussing "The Strange Case of the Assistant Professors," he gives vigorous expression to a student view of the vital changes being wrought by the administrative appointment policy. This view, which has found similar expression in other student publications, can hardly be better put than in Mr. Ross's own words: "Undergraduates are naturally concerned with the threat to Harvard education, rather than with the more remote issues of faculty security and academic democracy. We are disturbed...
...political blunder of the first magnitude. Looking back upon the brief history of President Conant's "concentration-quotas," no member of the University should now feel surprise at the present unhappy outcome of the Committee's devoted labors; and none should despair that President Conant may, in due course, view the appointment problem in a wider perspective than appears to have been the case last year when he felt a need for action
Furthermore, from a strictly utilitarian point of view, it is disadvantageous to move into these already overcrowded fields. The history of concentration fields shows that in periods of social or economic stress, such as the last ten years, students stampede into the social sciences. This recent stampede has led to overcrowded courses, insufficient tutorial staffs, and insufficient departmental budgets in the social sciences. For the University's funds are pigeon-holed; they cannot be shifted at will...