Word: gsas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this intensity of study which is in many ways the predominant characteristic of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, GSAS, still resisting John Dewey, offers one of the most rigorous American educational experiences; absorbing it is a full-time, often an overtime task. But it is this intensity which has also earned GSAS its reputation as probably the finest school of its kind in the country...
...Cambridge, the GSAS represents the intellectual core of the University in its dual function of training the professional intellectual and furthering knowledge in all areas of liberal arts and sciences. In both these endeavors, the success of the Graduate School has paralleled the fame of the University. The high numbers of Harvard Ph.D's who staff the faculties of the more highly-rated American colleges; the recurring number of Nobel and other prizes awarded the faculty; the consistently high number of GSAS doctoral theses published--all vouchsafe the depth of learned research at the GSAS...
...intensity of the present GSAS curriculum is expressed in studies as well as in studying. Most of the larger undergraduate departments are broken up into smaller areas for concentrated graduate study. With a predominance of A's required for the Ph.D., the GSAS dean's office recognizes a B as the rough equivalent of an "undergraduate...
...GSAS, then, is to a great extent personified by is scholarly curriculum. Nevertheless there are marked lines of cleavage among faculty and students on the purpose of graduate education. There is, however, an official orthodox view of the function as they see it applicable in their fields...
This function, as defined by Francis M. Rogers, Dean of the USAS, is "to train students for the Ph.D., the professional degree of the academic profession." GSAS, to Dean Rogers and to many other faculty members, is as truly professional as any other graduate school in the University. But the Dean points out, his concept of the "academic profession"--"the preservation, dissemination, and advancement of knowledge"--is far broader than hat of many others...