ABSTRACT
This chapter emphasizes that the older attitudes, which placed great value on teaching and teaching ability, are not entirely dead, even in the major universities. Especially in departments of the humanities, the teaching requirement still has considerable meaning, even under the pressure of the universal demand for research. To know the qualifications desired in candidates is not necessarily to know the qualifications by which they are chosen. To a large extent, the specific qualifications departments desire in their replacements are different from their criteria of acceptability. One of the questions which the respondent was asked in the course of the interview was whether, in his opinion, the specific replacement made would have any long-range effect on the department. In all organizations, real difficulties occur in the reconciliation of seniority and merit. An academic department is an organized group, and its personnel can be formally arranged by rank and by salary within rank, starting from the top.
