Word: warrens
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...Trouble." Last week the Justices all but begged for mercy during the oral arguments in three obscenity cases involving no fewer than 144 publications. How could the court rule without reading all of them? "If the final burden is on this court," groaned Chief Justice Earl Warren, who dissented in Jacobellis, "then it looks to me as though we're in trouble." ^ In the first case, Publisher Ralph Ginzburg appealed a five-year federal sentence for putting the now defunct magazine Eros in the mails, along with a "newsletter" called Liaison and a socalled psychological study titled The Housewife...
Dreary Chore. With a sigh, Earl Warren called for arguments in the third case: Publisher G. P. Putnam's Sons' appeal from Massachusetts' ban on Fanny Hill, the enduring (1749) erotic bestseller that has been ruled non-obscene in New York. For the publisher, Lawyer Charles Rembar breezily announced: "I bring you a case in which it is not necessary to read the book." Commented Justice John M. Harlan: "Maybe I wasted my time reading it in advance." Undaunted, Rembar argued that all sorts of experts have long since attested to Fanny's social importance...
...center and the negligible salary increases announced last week will offset the lucrative salaries, light teaching loads, and promise of earlier tenure appointments offered to Harvard junior faculty members by other universities. Most young instructors leave Harvard because staying is pointless--and that is unchanged by the Warren Center. Harvard can be a dead end for an aspiring academician--there are already just too many good people competing for two few senior posts. Increasing the number of non-tenured faculty members only means there will be more competing for those few positions...
...wiser use of the Warren bequest--and one more in keeping with Charles Warren's interests--would be to improve the quality as well as the range of instruction in American history by endowing a few new professorships instead of hiring many new instructors. Presumably courses taught by professors would be better than courses taught by instructors. The greater chances for promotion might induce bright young scholars to remain here as well...
...Warren Center, far from improving undergraduate education, may indeed only weaken the already short-handed staff in American history. The provisions for the use of the bequests do not improve the dismal tenure prospects confronting the junior faculty; the History Department can only expect to go losing its best men before their terms expire. And the possibility of full professors' spending less of their time teaching is even more alarming to those of us who care how American history is taught...