Word: elderly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Graduate students concurred in this estimate of their views and said that there was a tendency to feel that they could not get their degree in the three-year period proposed by Elder. Another view voiced was that the degree should not be made easier for future students, who, it was implied, should suffer as their predecessors...
Reuben A. Brower, Master of Adams House, also anticipated adverse graduate student reaction and predicted a "period of painful transition" if the changes were effected. However, he voiced his approval of the Elder suggestions, and said that a large scholarship program would have to be set up to supply students with funds they would otherwise get by teaching...
...comments were made in relation to a report written by Dean Elder, of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, for the Association of Graduate Schools. Elder recommended that the Ph.D. degree program be restricted to three years and that the A.M. be limited to one-half that time. He further urged that both degrees represent more original work as well as "technical ability...
Edward S. Mason, Dean of the Graduate School of Public Administration, concurred with Elder, though he anticipated that exceptions would have to be made for teaching fellows. Jabez C. Street, chairman of the department of Physics, supported the Elder suggestions, saying that the "point of view does not change the sciences, but represents the right direction for them...
...elder DeVoto, writing in his column, "The Easy Chair," in the September, 1955, issue of Harper's Magazine complained of the "deplorable state" into which the land had fallen. "Hell's Half Acre," as he called it, had been "tolerably quiet, tolerably fresh, and a pleasant place to have in a city of 130,000 people" but had recently become an illegal dumping place for Cambridge refuse...