PROFESSOR BURBANK QUITS

Coming as it did at a time when most of Harvard was dazed by the sudden ending of the tenure of ten popular assistant professors, Professor Burbank's resignation last spring as chairman of the Economics department lent itself too easily to interpretation as a protest against the Administration's tenure policy. It is now clear as Professor Burbank says, that this was "an unjustified assumption." Professor Burbank, besides carrying one of the heaviest teaching loads in his department, has been the able administrator not only of the department but of its Board of Tutors and its large introductory course. The Crimson regrets that it was carried away by its own strong desire for an explanation of a new policy's woefully abrupt application and led to attribute reasons other than his own for Professor Burbank's resignation.