Word: elderly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such a case is not atypical. "Almost anything bad that can be said about married students housing," states Dean Elder, "will underestimate the situation." The married graduate student at Harvard is an exploited creature. High rents, inadequate facilities for children, and overcrowded living conditions are stimulating an exodus from Cambridge to Arlington, Somerville, run-down sections of Watertown--even as far as Revere...
Most, however, also felt that "their graduate programs were held up by such work." For this reason Elder recommended that the maximum number of year students may hold teaching fellowships be cut from four to two, and that they be allowed to teach for one-half of each year, at most, rather than threefifths, as at present...
...teaching fellow "is going to get the maximum benefit from two years of teaching," Elder asserted, a feeling seconded by many respondents to the poll. Teaching more than two years, Elder said, is done for financial, rather than educational reasons...
Fortunately for him, there is little chance that the third of these difficulties will become a reality, since Dean Elder, and it is suspected, Dean Bundy, feel that the teaching experience is very important and worth-while--for the teaching fellow. The second problem is presently undergoing extensive consideration by the Faculty and in a few years it is quite likely that the Ph.D. program will definitely be limited to three or four years. But the graduate student will continue to face the first problem until the Faculty takes some definite steps to teach the teaching fellow to teach...
Most students in the College have listened to a section man ineptly attempt to lead a discussion and end up lecturing in a hesitant manner, and have wished that something could be done about it. Dean Elder has shown the first sign of definitely recognizing the problem, with his proposal to set up a half-course for Master's degree candidates in the teaching of their subject. But Dean Elder first wants to tackle the problem of speeding up Ph.D.'s, and, though he strongly desires to implement this course for Master's candidates, he is waiting...