Word: elderly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Peterson Elder, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, spoke out strongly yesterday against abolition of the status of teaching fellows, a suggestion presently being considered by the Faculty. Elder urged, however, a halving of the maximum number of years a student may hold a teaching fellowship...
Abolition of the post was proposed as one method of lessening the amount of time spent in acquiring the Ph.D. Elder has firmly requested that all graduate students try to complete their degree requirements in three years. The Faculty suggestion was discussed this term during Elder's absence on a speaking tour for the Program for Harvard College...
...teaching fellow program, Elder asserted, "gives a graduate student the feeling of being really useful," and relieves him from the tension of constant "evaluation and assessment." In a recent survey, most teaching fellows over the past four years considered the experience "worthwhile" and several called it "indispensable...
...book, concerned mainly with his South Carolina boyhood and his stock market coups. Biographer Coit labored with Baruch's blessing amid the "huge chaotic mass" of his papers, but they parted company in 1955 over questions of "interpretation." Her interpretation of Baruch's role as elder statesman is, in effect, that Baruch preferred to wield power indirectly without elective responsibility. He could hold down his famed park bench of authority without running for it every,,two, four or six years...
Another phase of U.S. education that came under attack last week was the training program for the Ph.D. After long study, the deans of four graduate schools-Jacques Barzun of Columbia, John Petersen Elder of Harvard, Marcus Hobbs of Duke and Andrew Robertson Gordon of the University of Toronto-"ruefully" concluded that getting...