Word: elderly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Less than 50 per cent of the men and women admitted to the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences will register next Fall, Dean Elder predicted yesterday...
Although the figure is not yet definite, Elder estimated that the number of students would be about the same as that of 1957. In that year, only 47 per cent of those accepted came to the Graduate School...
...Elder characterized the figures as "startling at first sight." The discrepancy in numbers, however, is not unusual on the graduate level, he said...
Although individual students offer personal reasons for selecting other schools, Elder named two general influences on student choice. First are the outstanding individual departments at other schools; second, the fact that such schools offer more scholarship money...
This hyperbole has some basis in fact. The report compiled by Dean Elder in November made reference to the situation. "The emerging Ph.D," he said, "is not what we mean by an educated man, a man who combines wide-ranging learning with an attitude of simplicity and vividness, and who commingles good taste with an excited curiosity. Rather, he likely has become a sort of expert plumber in the card catalogues or other areas, and neither as teacher nor scholar will he throw off this inhibiting heritage...