Word: conant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Conant will speak informally to the class of '43 this evening in the Union at 7:45 o'clock. All Freshmen are invited...
Your story on Harvard in the Education section of the Oct. 16 issue carried statements from an article written by a Harvard undergraduate censuring Harvard's President Conant for his policies in the "hiring & firing" of young faculty members. Aside from several errors in the TIME story, among them that Professor Burbank quit the University (he did not), it seems to me that the story fails to make a fair attempt to present both sides of a controversial issue...
President Conant assumed office in 1933 with this situation confronting him. Over a period of six years, it has been the purpose oi the present administration to explore every avenue for solving the problem. After a study of the departments in which the crowding of the lower ranks was most acute, the administration decided that unless there was a future opening for a young instructor he must seek a position elsewhere after a period of apprenticeship. An impartial committee of eight professors appointed in 1937 to study this matter arrived at essentially the same conclusion as the administration. Their report...
President Conant will speak informally to the members of the Class of '43 in the Union at 7:45 o'clock. Wednesday evening. All Freshmen are urged to attend...
Taking an active stand against "American imperialists and the warmongering policy of President Conant," the Harvard Anti-War Committee yesterday announced plans for a huge demonstration to be held in Memorial Hall on the evening before Armistice...