Word: westerfield
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bradford Westerfield, instructor in Government, will give Government 124 in the place of Robert G. McCloskey, associate professor of Government, who will devote the year to writing and research...
...Westerfield was a Sheldon traveling fellow in 1951-52 and is currently a socalled "congressional interne" under the sponsorship of the American Political Science Convention. In this post he is studying Congressional procedure by working with both individual members and committees of Congress...
...Yale economics professor yesterday called his department "one of the sorry spots in the Yale curricular picture." The professor, Ray B. Westerfield, pointed out that the Yale Graduate Department of Economics ranked 20 to 21st in a comparison of graduate departments of economics compiled by the "American Economic Review." Harvard ranked second in the list, Columbia first...
...Westerfield called the economics courses at Yale "utterly inadequate and their quality of teaching is not outstanding." He further charged that, "the low salary scale, the lack of clerical and other assistance, burden of work imposed, and petty policies in top administrative circles have made it impossible to attract first class professors to Yale or even retain our ablest young...
...Westerfield's charges were printed in the Yale Daily News, which also ran an editorial deploring the decline of the Eli economics department...