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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These are the reasons: (1) instruction is given by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, not by a college faculty, which means the College's needs are not all-important; (2) the number of permanent appointments allowed each department is frozen at its "historical" size...
...Sciences, which draws on all three fields, the Social Sciences surrenders an enormous amount of energy to the Graduate School of Public Administration. The Natural Sciences gains more from the graduate schools than it loses, for the schools of Medicine, Dental Medicine, and Public Health provide a large number of top-level instructors for limited use in advanced and specialized courses...
...social relations field maintains its high number of concentrators, it can do so only at the expense of other departments, since the enrollment of the College has been fixed by administrative decree. But it will not increase its allotment of permanent appointments at the expense of other departments. It will have to wait for new money, in the form of either endowed chairs or gifts to the University for unrestricted purposes...
...appointment system is very simple. In 1939 the Faculty determined the "historical" size of each department. The exact details of the process are shrouded in mystery. "Historical" size depended to a certain degree upon size at the time, and to a small degree upon number of students and concentrators. Endowments played a role: for instance, the Department of Semitic Languages and History had two chairs endowed for over $118,000. Although the department then offered only nine courses for a total of 38 undergraduates and graduates, to throw out one of the professors would have meant giving up completely...
...also determined that the average length of a permanent appointment is 34 years: that the average age of appointment to an associate professorship is 34 and the average retirement age 68. The figure 34 was then divided by the number of permanent positions for each department. The result is simply the number of years between appointments to a department...