Word: wholeness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Less time than usual has been provided for getting the team ready for its first meet, which will be against the M.I.T. Freshmen on December 15. Peterson expects to know the best or the worst by the end of the week when the whole squad will have been timed...
...tenure question has not been blazing any headlines of late, and the lack of concrete news has produced the impression that the whole problem has been permanently disposed of. Actually the controversy has merely proceeded into a second stage whose outcome will be as Harvard-shaking as that of the first. It has been recognized from the beginning that there were two more or less distinct issues involved. The long-run problem of flexibility in the system of appointments was debated and settled in spirited faculty meetings featured by ample journalistic spreads. But the immediate problem of the blow...
...Government Departments should request that they be granted more associate professorships--to be filled by the men in question. If the Administration does not see eye to eye with the departments on what the necessary "exceptional circumstances" are, they have the right to bring the matter up before the whole faculty...
When all is said and done, the case of the assistant professors is primarily responsible for bringing up the tenure controversy. The whole business might never have arisen if students and faculty members had not become acutely aware that certain excellent professors giving superior courses were being forced to leave. In fact, the only reason for participation in the controversy by students--who rightly have a short-run view--was the hope that some arrangement could be made to keep the men. With the new rules of the game, the original slip can be corrected...
...Bali; and it has a script that sometimes scintillates. Of course, it does have Fred MacMurray, too; and it is burdened with a plot; but such things seem to be inevitable. Only when the Message becomes too obvious does the pace sag; Miss Carroll, it seems, has planned her whole life with the mathematical precision of an M. I. T. graduate, and must be convinced that Love is more important than a business career. Without too much trouble, however, she is brought around; and the result is, among other things, Carolyn Lee, another new child actress. Just as a footnote...