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Hobbing and Dale maintain that as a result of the Administration's present policy, "Teaching in fields of concentration, affecting about half of the undergraduates, will be severely injured.... The best teachers and scholars will be lost... The staffing of the Faculty will be thrown out of joint...
Attacking the "top-heavy structure" of University government, they maintain that "Entangled in the web of its own methods, the Administration blundered, when wider distribution of responsibility and consultation would have secured proper education policy...
...months the tenure question has filled the air. The desire to maintain Harvard's educational standards has served as a basis for demanding retention of the ousted assistant professors. There is, however, a new and more important reason why the "middle group" of teachers should be not only maintained but perhaps expanded...
When Harvard was expanding rapidly in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it needed many famous scholars to attract a student clientele; it was a young university. Now its position is more firmly established. Now a minimum of great names is needed to maintain its place in the sun. What is needed, however, to improve the second and now more important source of its greatness is a greater emphasis on teaching in order to train the embryo "great names" of the future...
...India to a new war. Silently, without overt enthusiasm but also without complaint, India fell in line. It looked as though India's leaders would rally their followers to defend the one thing they have wanted to see ended for over two decades, Britain's Empire; to maintain something they themselves do not have, democracy. But last week Britain clumsily chipped the biggest jewel in her crown...