Word: gsas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another major revision in the Political Science program will be a regulation stating, "at least four seminar style papers shall be completed in the normal two years of residence." This requirement is in keeping with a report made last year by J. P. Elder, Dean of GSAS, who stated that graduate students should have marked proficiency in writing "respectable English...
...report, "A Criticism of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences," Dean Elder states that the teaching aspect of the Ph.D. "has been scandalously neglected." According to Elder's survey of those who took their doctorate from 1950 to 1954, one quarter had no training in education. Once instructors, GSAS graduates find that future promotion depends principally on getting works published, and not on success as teachers...
Since different methods of presentation are needed in the natural sciences, the humanities, and social sciences, it might be best for such courses to be organized by area within the GSAS. Instruction might range from GSAS "workshop" seminars for graduates in a specific field to a formal course in the philosophy of education offered by the Graduate School of Education...
...addition, $1350 with more to come, was contributed by the GSAS, the Law School, and Medical School, for a total of $8750. Totals for the Radcliffe Drive, conducted separately by the Student Government Association, were not announced...
Physical facilities of some of these schools--Agassiz and Peabody, for example--are more than adequate. The main complaints of these graduate students concern the calibre of teaching. "What can you expect when appointments are made arbitrarily instead of by merit?" one father in GSAS demanded...