Word: questions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...question thus became, not "Who got there first?" but "Did anybody get there at all?" Perhaps neither Cook nor Peary first saw the North Pole: perhaps it was first sighted, from the relatively cozy cabin of an airplane, by Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett...
...wisdom of increasing even slightly the proportion of junior teachers in a university where it is already the practice to futurst a great deal of the undergraduate instruction to the less experienced teachers is open to serious question on educational grounds." Stone says...
...concludes that Harvard should reconsider its constitutional set-up, and ask itself this question: "Can the complex modern university he governed both wisely and satisfactorily without effective, constitutional participation of its faculties in the decision of questions of general policy bearing directly on their several education functions...
...tenure question has not been blazing any headlines of late, and the lack of concrete news has produced the impression that the whole problem has been permanently disposed of. Actually the controversy has merely proceeded into a second stage whose outcome will be as Harvard-shaking as that of the first. It has been recognized from the beginning that there were two more or less distinct issues involved. The long-run problem of flexibility in the system of appointments was debated and settled in spirited faculty meetings featured by ample journalistic spreads. But the immediate problem of the blow...
...this should be the result of the negotiations now in progress between the Administration and various departments. More specifically, the English and Government Departments should request that they be granted more associate professorships--to be filled by the men in question. If the Administration does not see eye to eye with the departments on what the necessary "exceptional circumstances" are, they have the right to bring the matter up before the whole faculty...