NEW TENURE APPEAL GAINS IN MOMENTUM

With over 500 names already on its petition, the Committee to Save Harvard Education has launched a new protest to the Administration's policy of reducing the number of assistant professors, Irwin Ross '40, spokesman for the committee, announced yesterday.

The petition, which appeals to the Corporation to "eliminate this threat to Harvard's universally acclaimed standards of instruction," will be delivered to a representative of the Corporation early next week, Ross said, and copies will go to all the other members.

Previous Appeals Falled

Previous appeals, he maintained, have always been addressed to the Administration itself, and thus "got nowhere." As an example of this, Ross cited the case of the English concentrators' petition last June, which he said was rejected by President Conant. The Committee hopes that some more definite action may result from putting the protest before the Corporation.

The main thesis of the petition is that the assistant professors are "a group including some of the best teachers in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences," and that "This administrative policy undermines the morale of the younger members of the Faculty and otherwise lowers the quality of teaching throughout the College."

The nine members of the Committee to Save Harvard Education are: William N. Dale '40, John W. Goddard '41, Alan Gottlieb '41, Cranston E. Jones '40, Laurence I. Radway '40, Robert B. Ridder '41, Irwin Ross '40, John S. Stillman '40, and D. Willson Webb '40.