Word: falling
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...paint had long since flaked from the outside walls. Hedges grew tree-high around the yard. Rigged behind one of the doors was a bundle of newspapers, a rope and a hammer, so arranged that if anyone entered without Miss Claudius' permission (never granted), the hammer would fall on the intruder's head. In the warm months, as soon as Miss Claudius got up, she repaired to her backyard, where she kept an old piano, weathering but still tuneful in the open air. She would play her piano, and sing to the birds. When the neighbors objected, Miss...
Slower Population Growth Does Not Mean Stagnation. . . . The rate of our population growth is slowing down, but . . . through all the rise and fall of rate of population growth, an actual growth of population has taken place. . . . The National Resources Committee of the present Administration estimates that from 1930 to 1940 we have realized a 7.5% increase in population. This is an increase of 9,218,000. Whatever may be happening to the rate of population growth, here are over nine million more human beings American enterprise must service than we had ten years...
Rosenthal is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, and led his class last year. He will immediately assume the duties of running the Review, but will not officially become president until next fall...
...roar of last fall's tenure controversy has subsided to a whisper. "Frozen associate professorships" are no longer a good topic for dinner table conversation in intellectual circles, and there hasn't been a communique from the Committee to Save Harvard Education since the middle of January. But the angry fight precipitated by the "case of the ten assistant professors" is not wholly dead, and the disturbing questions which it raised about the value of Harvard's system of top-side academic government have not been answered...
Last spring the news that ten assistant professors had been fired in the course of applying the Committee of Eight's new tenure system precipitated instantaneous student and Faculty protest. The Administration was charged with ruthless undermining of the English, Government, and Biology Departments. This fall the Student Council and Phi Beta Kappa added their voices to the mounting roar of protest, and the Faculty opposition led by the Teachers' Union and a powerful block of conservative rebels belabored the Administration for what they believed to be a blind and mistaken policy of retrenchment. By December, however, the crisis...