Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dismissal of two popular, liberal young instructors, John Raymond Walsh and Alan R. Sweezy, ruffled the leaves of the academic grove but uprooted no trees. When Harvard's President James Bryant Conant, petitioned by the faculty, appointed a faculty committee (including Felix Frankfurter) to investigate the affair, few expected anything to come of it. For Messrs. Walsh and Sweezy, nothing did; President Conant politely turned down the committee's recommendation that the pair be rehired (TIME, June...
...committee went on to investigate the hiring and firing of Harvard teachers generally. Two months ago it delivered a 165-page report proposing many reforms. Last week, to the surprise of many, President Conant adopted the report in toto as Harvard's employment policy. The Walsh-Sweezy affair thus produced what may well prove a Magna Charta for U. S. college teachers...
...Second Coming, in college Mary loses her faith because of a sociology professor, finds college boys a miserable substitute. Likewise synthetic is her marriage to a rich, cultured Jew. Renouncing his comfortable world, she seeks the true faith in vain in a factory, among the Communists, in an affair with a psychiatrist. Salvation comes when she meets David Markand, hero of Author Frank's last novel and Mary's New-Adam counterpart. Through her love for him, plus a beyond-Communism social faith, she finds new symbols for her long-lost religious faith...
...outstanding innovation of the year is the use of Memorial Hall, which is much larger than the always crowded Union, where the affair used to be held, Decorated so that it no longer has the appearance of an examination hall or a college commons by a crew of volunteers, the huge, high-vaulted hall is festooned with streamers and pennants hiding the tapestries, busts, and stained-glass windows...
Again it was Eli strength in the tall end of the lineup which was all-important as they took the last two doubles points. In a nine point affair, the Crimson would have...