Word: gsas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dean's proposals do not have in them the seeds of Administrative tyranny, nor do they intend any fundamental changes in GSAS studies. Their purpose is to discourage the European type of perpetual student, the professional grad student who cannot foresake Cambridge for the real world. Elder's plan would clear the lines for active, purposeful graduate work. It would make the Ph.D. a "more residential degree to be won by workmanlike methods within a reasonably definite time." Graduate study should be preparation, not vocation. Hopefully there will be another vote, and another verdict...
...fact, stated his belief that "a great many graduate students who stay around for a long time get a great deal out of it." He proposed an increased concentration on the M.A. in order to "produce needed teachers for junior colleges," and asserted that the greatest need of the GSAS was refusing to admit second-rate students, who at present constitute "about 25 per cent" of the enrollment...
...proposals were first outlined at meetings of the GSAS Administrative Board last spring, after Elder had co-authored a report for the Association of Graduate Schools in the Fall. He then called the present Ph.D. program "nebulous" and "myth-enveloped," compared with graduate degrees in law, medicine, or business, in which the student "knows beforehand how long a time such training will take...
Even now, the GSAS catalog recommends that the qualifying examinations be completed after three years, and the Faculty in the spring of 1957 defined the Ph.D. "less in terms of formal courses" than it had previously done. Anticipating the CEP plan of last spring, the Faculty voted an increase in independent work: only eight half courses in the first two years were required rather than sixteen...
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