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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Obviously, no one editorial nor one point of view is sufficient to interpret and judge fully, the Report by the special Faculty Committee on the terminating appointments given last year to Dr. Walsh and Dr. Sweezy. Looking, however, at certain aspects of this Report from the undergraduate point of view, we are convinced that both the Committee and President Conant, each to a different extent and in different fashion, erred in regard to the recommendation for reappointment of these two men by the Department of Economics...
...recommendation that these instructors be reappointed for a second term of three years was inopportune and inexpedient. Although his practical and far-sighted financial policy should be applauded in theory, in this particular case it would have been wiser if the President had adopted as equally a long-term view of the effect of the instructors' dismissal on the University. The Report proves that these men were brilliant teachers, that on this account and on that of their special interests they should have been given another chance for promotion. The Economics Department expected, at least, that Drs. Walsh and Sweezy...
...courses in the History and English departments are founded predominantly on the approach. If English 21 is unsatisfactory, as it seems to be, it is because the History and Literature man feels the weakness of too narrow and outmoded an interpretation and the absence of a social point of view. All courses which attempt to relate history and literature to the cultural and economic background of the time concerned are applauded. For this reason less philology and more sociology are demanded. See the History and English articles for courses not mentioned...
Advanced courses in Design and in Theory are all recommended, depending of course on the special field and the interests of the student. Course 2a, as mentioned above, gives individual practice in drawing, and from that point of view is suggested for those not concentrating in the field, but 1a is required for admittance to it. Fine Arts 2b, on descriptive geometry, is required and valuable for students of Architecture, and 2d on the theory of Design, involving individual practice, is also suggested. Course 10, an introduction to Architectural Design, is closely connected to the School of Design...
Spanish 4 and 2 are the only courses which can qualify as Spanish literature courses. The former is a general view, corresponding to French 6, and could almost stand being a full course. Professor Ford gives both this and number 2 on the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and Cervantes. The defect of the other Spanish literature courses is that there is too much emphasis on the mechanics of translation. Whittem, and to a lesser degree Rivera, are both at their best on composition and tend to neglect the literary aspect of their material...