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...Jacques Barzun has been appointed Dean of Faculties and Provost of Columbia University, it was announced yesterday. Barzun and Dean Elder last fall collaborated in compiling a report for the Association of Graduate Schools, urging a revision of the requirements for the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees...
Another phase of U.S. education that came under attack last week was the training program for the Ph.D. After long study, the deans of four graduate schools-Jacques Barzun of Columbia, John Petersen Elder of Harvard, Marcus Hobbs of Duke and Andrew Robertson Gordon of the University of Toronto-"ruefully" concluded that getting...
This position complements the Dean Elder-Jaques Barzun report which calls for a shorter period in attaining the doctorate. At present, many graduate students spend five years or longer working toward the Ph.D...
...cannot drink a glass of beer without its dilution in Handel's Water Music," Author-Critic Jacques Barzun wrote recently, in describing the amazing musical saturation of the U.S. atmosphere. This week Piano Virtuoso Artur Rubinstein (see PEOPLE) enthusiastically echoes Barzun's point that "in spite of our perennial croaking about America's neglect of the arts, the country spends more money for music than the entire rest of the world." Since the hi-fi revolution, a growing slice of that money has been spent on records, which have created a magnificent "concert hall without walls...
...Barzun concludes: "To expand for the sake of a mere numerical show would be akin to demagogy, especially if done in the name of civic duty. And from the truly social point of view it would amount to debasing the coinage-a poor gift to the unsuspecting students seeking our degrees and to the community that would accept them at face value...