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Awarded. To Caroline Pafford Miller, 33, 1934 Pulitzer Prize novelist (Lamb in His Bosom); a final decree of divorce from William D. Miller, her high-school English teacher whom she married at 17; in Waycross, Ga. Grounds: "He became nagging, unbearable and . . . insanely jealous." Retorted Teacher Miller: "[She] got pleasure-mad after writing the book...
...Lamb goes to say that this feeling has resulted in a policy of the "student be damned" as regards undergraduate demands for further courses in social sciences...
Economy is a large feature in the struggle, the article points out. Lamb makes it clear that back of the dismissal is the fact that the view of Walsh and Sweezy have around the clamour of the interests and it is from these interests that Harvard receives much of her money. As a result, President Conant has seen fit to "economize on the budgets of the social-science departments and increase the good-will of those through whose generosity the University has grown and flourished...
From President Conant, Lamb turns to the Visiting Committee of the Department of Economics. Showing that the members are among the leaders, in the ranks of the vested interests, he comes to the conclusion that it is "small wonder that the entire faculty of the Department of Economics is dedicated to a scholarly refusal to come to conclusions on any and all of the leading questions of modern economic life. Small wonder also that the activities of the two liberal instructions should have seemed unbecoming in men preparing for a 'scholarly' "career...
...Lamb finds that discretion is an important qualification for promotion at Harvard, and that such activities as the Teachers Union are not looked on with much favor, especially when they are coupled with the labor movement in Massachusetts...