Word: kappa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Paul Olum '40, of Binghamton, N. Y., and Eliot House was elected to the coveted post of First Marshal of the Phi Beta Kappa Society last night, as the Junior Eight met in the Lowell House tutors' common room to vote on the Society's executive personnel and to determine the 16 men from the Senior class to be taken in at this election...
...these firings, President Conant was taken to task by the Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa and the Teachers Union. When Professor Harold Hitchings Burbank, head of the economics department, quit the University, the campus believed he did so as a protest, although he denied it. Last week there were other open protests besides the Progressive's, which cried that the "strange case of the assistant professors" was "more disquieting . . . than the cases of previous years. . . . Harvard education itself is at stake. . . . The disregard for undergraduate teaching, the attack on faculty security and morale, the flouting of academic democracy...
...home to others because the names of the fallen were necessarily screened from an unearned public disgrace. But even then the shock was great enough to startle a protesting group of students in English into action, and to elicit a sharp defence of sound undergraduate teaching from Phi Beta Kappa. Now the issue seems to be pressing more heavily on students' minds. They cannot help noticing that many experienced tutors left last year for more serene fields. They know that for several of their teachers in middle group courses between elementary and advanced work, this is the last year...
...debate is believed to have focussed on the Administration's application of the new Faculty tenure policy, and to have touched on the issues raised by the Teachers' Union and Phi Beta Kappa last June when it was learned that ten assistant professors had been given terminating appointments...
...that called it an ungracious act on the part of Harvard to those who had served it well for many years to that which deduced a trend toward neglect of the College in favor of the University. Strongly supporting the latter view was the Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa which condemned the loss of the experienced "middle group" of teachers and tutors...