Word: size
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...assigning definite figures of "historical" size, the Faculty did not cut any department. Where there were inconsistencies, it added...
...this method a department whose "historical" size is 34 permanent members appoints a new one every year, regardless of whether none, one, or ten members, has retired during the year. A department of 17 permanent members appoints a new one every two years; a department of two every 17 years; etc. In case of sudden death or excessively premature resignation or retirement, a "call appointment" is made, which does not affect the periodical replenishment of the staff...
...other disadvantage to adherence to the system is rigidity of the structure and distribution of the Faculty. The rapid growth in social relations is an example of a field which has not been given an allotment of permanent appointees comparable to its size...
Fine Arts offers the best example of the opposite trend. Before the war, Fine Arts averaged 2.7 percent of all concentrators; for the past three years it has averaged .9 percent, a decline to one third its former size. But it has nine full and associate professors, just as it did ten years...
...Course Size: Cause or Effect...