Word: elderly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another major revision in the Political Science program will be a regulation stating, "at least four seminar style papers shall be completed in the normal two years of residence." This requirement is in keeping with a report made last year by J. P. Elder, Dean of GSAS, who stated that graduate students should have marked proficiency in writing "respectable English...
...hidden $32,000 treasure. They also made newsmen pay for everything they got. Prices ranged from 5,000 lire ($8) for a photograph of a gypsy weeping to 50,000 lire for a closeup of the queen herself. "For only 5,000 lire more," a gold-toothed, top-hatted elder told an Italian reporter, "you may touch the queen's hand and ask her anything you wish. Of course, we cannot guarantee that she will answer...
...recent report, "A Criticism of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences," Dean Elder states that the teaching aspect of the Ph.D. "has been scandalously neglected." According to Elder's survey of those who took their doctorate from 1950 to 1954, one quarter had no training in education. Once instructors, GSAS graduates find that future promotion depends principally on getting works published, and not on success as teachers...
Frohock believes Dean Elder's recommending changes on the graduate level will have no immediate effect on graduate study in the Romance Languages, because "these things frequently grind on for quite a while." He added that, in his opinion, "it will cause considerable change in a few years...
...Saud's 40 sons, is at least as stalwart a Saudi dynast as his brother the King, and might well be the chieftain with the stature and ability to save the Saudi regime. He is widely considered abler, more vigorous and more cultivated than his elder brother. In the desert campaigns of the '20s and '30s he fought for his warrior-father with greater flair and daring. While his taciturn brother stayed home holding interminable levees among dusty tribal sheiks, Feisal, majestically robed and daggered, represented his country at international conferences in Europe and America...