Word: grads
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wolfe doesn't see himself like that. "I'm a spoilsport," he says, "like that guy who was foxhunting during the War of the Roses and got caught between both sides." Apparently, neither Washington and Lee (B.A.), nor the Yale grad school (Ph.D. in American Studies), nor reporting stints in Springfield, Washington, and Latin stints in Springfield, Washington, and Latin America prepared him for New York. "I expected to see Mark Hellinger sauntering down Broadway in a white suit," he said to three different Harvard audiences, "but everybody wore these drab things...
Comrade Leonard Makepeace is a provincial bicycle mechanic with a passion for the Marxian notion that man (and society) is perfectible on earth. This passion he dissipates happily in tavern talk until he meets a delectable but distant schoolmistress from Lenin grad. Rejected in love, he goes after power and one day discovers in a volume of Indian theosophy the technique of "mental magnetism." He realizes he can make anybody do anything...
...there is evidence that graduate-student teaching leaves something to be desired. Many departments permit first-year graduate students to teach sections without any prior instruction in how to teach. Thrown back on memories of their own high school or college teachers, the grad students must rely on their intuition to become good teachers. If some succeed, student reaction suggests that the majority do not. "The section men either make or break it," this year's Confidential Guide said of the College's largest course. "Last year, for the most part, they broke it." The Guide is dotted with courses...
...chooses to press his own first interest, which is the pursuit of a Ph.D., the system can degenerate into what Harvard Senior Herbert Denton calls "a kind of WPA for grad students." Harvard pays $1,080 for each section a fellow teaches, allows him to handle up to three, limits the job to four years. Cal pays $2,500 for a half-time teaching load the first year, with small raises later. Thus while an un married TA can survive on his stipend, a married grad must put his wife to work-and even then, says Cal Graduate Dean Sanford...
...gentlemen and scholars dripping with college degrees." The Russian launching of Sputnik made education and intellectualism newly desirable. The Kennedy Administration made it glamorous in a slightly Broadway-tinted way by creating a sort of Camelot for brains. If not quite in the same style, the most distinguished old grad of Texas' Southwest Teachers College continues to employ intellectuals to help...