Word: elderly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dean Elder, upon formal approval by the Corporation this morning, will appear in Washington a week from today to be sworn in as administrator of the Graduate Fellowship division of the $80,000,000 national scholarship program, a Health, Education and Welfare official disclosed Saturday...
...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...
...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...
...Dean's proposals do not have in them the seeds of Administrative tyranny, nor do they intend any fundamental changes in GSAS studies. Their purpose is to discourage the European type of perpetual student, the professional grad student who cannot foresake Cambridge for the real world. Elder's plan would clear the lines for active, purposeful graduate work. It would make the Ph.D. a "more residential degree to be won by workmanlike methods within a reasonably definite time." Graduate study should be preparation, not vocation. Hopefully there will be another vote, and another verdict...