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CROSS RAPS TENURE POLICY IN PROGRESSIVE ARTICLE

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There is "discontent, resentment, and impaired instruction in some of the major departments," according to Samuel H. Cross '12, professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures.

In an article in the forthcoming issue of the Progressive, the head of the Slavic department takes several sharp pokes at the Administration's tenure policy. He recommends "some latitude in the number of associate professors allowed to demonstrably understaffed departments" as the "most rational solution," and one which will not unbalance the budget.

"Harvard education stands or falls by the quality of the service it renders our undergraduates," according to Professor Cross, who adds, "the largest share of the university's social function is concentrated in the performance of its undergraduate departments."

He points out that full professors inevitably move into advanced instruction and turn "a good share of undergraduate teaching over to younger men...whose value to the university is enhanced as their knowledge and experience increase."

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