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Claiming that the departure of two assistant professors in the Department of History and Literature, John M. Potter '26 and Walter E. Houghton, "can only harm the quality of the education of the 150 concentrators," 17 undergraduates in the Department issued a call yesterday for a meeting of all the concentrators on next Tuesday evening in the Kirkland House Junior Common Room...
...committee of seven, headed by Robert Seidman '41, is drawing up the report to be presented at the meeting. They plan, according to Seidman, to bring out especially the factors of the present system of tenure which have led to the dismissal of Professor Potter and Professor Houghton...
Professor Merriman will continue to give History 48 on the Spanish Empire, his own particular field in history. He will also probably give History 30, the Renaissance and the Reformation, which was given this year by John M. Potter, assistant professor of History and Literature, who will not be here next year...
...dismissal of Houghton and Pettee came as a result of the same provisions of the tenure system which cut John M. Potter, assistant professor in History and Literature from the faculty lists...
...stringent financial limits imposed by the present system of tenure have not often forced the University to lose as good a man as Professor Potter. It is with deep regret that the many students who have come in contact with him will learn that he is not to be teaching at Harvard next year...