Word: larger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...teaching fellowships that the shortcomings of the dual administration are most painfully apparent. If women were admitted to the Harvard graduate schools, much of the see-saw process now involved in making these scholarship awards would be supplemented by the resources of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The larger scholarships would bring to Cambridge top quality women who often go elsewhere, accepting better offers. All the other graduate schools, except the Business School, have realized these co-educational advantages...
...opinion, the problem facing a graduate school of arts and sciences is recruitment, rather than revision of admission procedures. If the several Divisions, Departments, and Committees choose to recommend admission of larger numbers of graduate students in order to provide for an increased number of college teachers to meet anticipated swollen enrollments, there might well be a lack of applicants of the quality we wish. At the present time, there is a variation from Department to Department. In some Departments there are large number of well qualified applicants and the problem is one of selection. In others, the numbers...
...commenting on the desirability of re-examining student scholarship and loan policies, I pointed out that over the past several years a great need has existed for more first-year fellowships of a larger average stipend that had been available. The Committee on Fellowships and Other Aids for Graduate Students, the Harvard Foundation for Advanced Study and Research, and several Departments have worked hard to meet this need, with impressive results. I agree that a new look at policies is necessary and suggested that there may be Departments in which third-year fellowships, to speed a man toward the completion...
...Faculty Committee to study the Behavioral Sciences recommended last year that "larger scholarship funds should be made available to graduate students in the first years of graduate work, thus making it possible for the student to concentrate more fully on his studies in those years...
...this is all to the good. One of the principles of conservatism is the protection of private property and honest industry. I hope that we Americans will conserve "free enterprise" and "economic stability." But we will conserve these things only if we set our sights higher and conserve something larger, a society of variety and tradition and veneration. The liberals cannot do that work for us. I do not know whether the conservatives can; but it is time they began...