Word: gsas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...graduate school level, since most foreign students in the college have spent several years getting "Americanized" before they enroll. Although some of the graduate schools, such as the School of Public Health with its 40 per cent foreign enrollment, have worked out good advisorial systems, others, notably the GSAS, have tended to leave the burden on the student...
...academic matters, the difficulties are immediately apparent. In GSAS, a student is assigned an advisor through his department. Most department heads have tended to treat the foreign student just like any other student, on the theory that he will thus be better integrated into the community rather than made to stand out as "different." But the foreign student soon gets into difficulty just because he is different. The usual advisorial system, which makes the student take the initiative in discussing problems with his advisor, is bound to fail. In a poll taken last year, several foreign graduate students claimed they...
...favoring an increase in the GSAS student capacity over a similar change in the College, he pointed out that "liberal arts colleges can be founded fairly easily and abundently, and should be," but that the same was not true of graduate schools which need "large and outstanding faculties and well-equiped laboratories and libraries...
...main purpose of this increase in the capacity of GSAS would be to furnish more prospective teachers. "Fifty more Ph.D.'s a year from Harvard would constitute a substantial contribution toward the eventual teaching of 750 students in other colleges," Elder said...
Until yesterday's action, the GSAS had an iron-clad ruling that no graduate student could receive more than a total of $2,200. Under this ruling, if a student held a scholarship, he was not allowed to receive more than $900 for teaching...