Word: fellows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...knew him best. Sherman, his most successful subordinate and closest comrade in arms, once cried out in frustration: "To me he is a mystery, and I believe he is a mystery to himself." Lincoln, when asked what sort of man Grant was, replied: "He's the quietest little fellow you ever saw." Then the President added: "The only evidence you have that he's in any place is that he makes things git! Wherever he is, things move...
...wrote this letter late Sunday night, after spending two hours in the Eliot laundry room talking with the three nude people and a number of my fellow house members. Though this "letter" was initially intended simply for my own personal satisfaction, I felt inclined to voice my impressions openly after reading the coverage of the event put forth in Monday's CRIMSON. I think the CRIMSON article, with all its attention on the details of the episode, failed to present an adequate analysis of the interaction and communication of ideas that occurred among the people assembled in the laundry room...
...recommendations. Harvard departments have known for the last five years that graduate student morale is low and that the growing size of the graduate school brings a sense of impersonality to its students. Nor is the Wolff recommendation for one thousand and five hundred dollar increases in the teaching fellow pay scale a surprising complement to the Dunlop Report pay raises. In the words of one department chairman, the report should "sail through" at the next Faculty meeting...
Approval of enrollment cuts and teaching fellow pay raises will apply equally to every department. But Faculty approval means little to the practical implementation of the other suggestions. As Wolff said, "The Faculty can do no more than approve this in principle and expect each department to work within the recommendations...
...McClosky's recommendation for full five-year fellowships for graduate students. Presently, all first year students are guaranteed some sort of financial aid; older graduate students usually finance their second through fifth years in one of three ways: accepting outside scholarships like the National Science Foundation grants; taking teaching fellow positions; or competing for Harvard scholarships (primarily on the basis of first-term first-year grades). There is no limit on the number of grants a student can take; several accept grants and then become teaching fellows, doubling their earnings...