Word: deans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thunder of nays that resounded from the faculty meeting last week over Dean Elder's plan to limit Ph.D. study to four years must have come either from aroused protective instincts or from simple misunderstanding. Possibly the various departments suspect in the Dean's proposals a plot to catalyze his present comfortable hold into an iron grip. Or they may think the proposals would really alter the structure of graduate study. Both of these fears should cease...
...says different? Elder's proposals prominently feature a clause for lengthier plans of study. They recommend only that such special cases be reported to the Dean's office and be reviewed by the Administrative Board...
...basic alterations in the graduate study curricula, the Dean has repeatedly asserted his conviction that the Ph.D. is a non-professional degree, and therefore "is bound to deny exact definition in terms of time," or courses of study. All his tendered changes are qualitative...
...suspicions, but from other, quite plainly reprehensible, states of mind. One such state of mind belongs to men grown hidebound with inertia, teachers whose youth and fresh ideas lie behind them. These men often will oppose a change just because it is change. Another state of mind considers, as Dean Elder has put it, "a well-bred air of amateurishness more gentlemanly and becoming than down-to-earth efficiency...
...rule, which both Deans Watson and Brown are trying to alleviate, is, Dean Leighton quipped yesterday, "education neither separate nor equal...