APPOINTMENT STAND OF C. T. U. ATTACKED

As the time for the report of the Faculty Committee of Eight on appointment and tenure draws close, more adverse comment from heads of Departments and Divisions on certain phases of the Teachers' Union report on the same subject has been recorded.

Arthur S. Pease '02, professor of Latin and Chairman of the Division of Ancient Languages, objected chiefly to the idea of initial three-year appointments for instructors, in response to questions.

"The most unpredictable factor in selecting young instructors," he said, "seems to me not their promise in research but their teaching ability, and the proposed initial three-year appointments would unduly tie the hands of the University in cases where the interests of good instruction might demand an earlier change."

Opposes Retirement Change

Another feature of the report with which he took exception was the proposal that the retirement age be lowered to a possible 60 years and he pointed to the number of scholars here over that age who were doing good work.

Fernand Baldensperger, professor of Comparative Literature and Chairman of that Department, who served in English, French and German universities before he came here, preferred the system used at the University of London where "a special committee, including three 'powers,' authority, election, selection, is formed each time for any nomination of professors."

Regardless of methods of procedure, he said, a great deal depends on the "sense of responsibility" of the men in charge.