Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...face a starkly pressing demand for Ph.D.'s on all sorts of fronts--for college teachers, scientists, government experts, business consultants, and for no end of other purposes. What are we in the graduate schools going to do about tightening up our programs and requirements for this critical degree, which now seems to offer nearly as many services as the A.B. itself? Current pressure forces us to examine our myth-enveloped Ph.D. with candor. What we see makes us look away with shock: for compare our Ph.D. programs with the professional programs in law, medicine, or business. We must ruefully...
Advising and the first year. The best interest of both the student and the school demand that a member of the faculty deal fully and thoughtfully with the individual student. We need not stress the heterogeneous backgrounds of our graduate students. The adviser, meeting with the first-year man before registration and after the results of the foreign...
...this policy of mutual isolation among the two English-speaking powers. But serious problems still remain before even this first step toward increased Western unity can be completed. First, President Eisenhower will have to secure Congressional authorization in order to share nuclear secrets with the British. This will demand great candor and initiative on his part in pushing his proposals and explaining the international circumstances that justify them...
Merom Brachman '58, Council Secretary, who was responsible for publication of the Report, said that he was pleased by the Committee's action since he thought the recommendations "illadvised." He reported that there has been a fairly large demand for the report from other colleges...
Munro predicted that the amount loaned by the University would reach an alltime high this year, and estimated that students would borrow over a quarter of a million dollars. This is part of a rapid growth in the demand for loans since 1949, when they totaled...