Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...problem by requiring real competence in either a foreign language or in mathematics, and something along this line might be put in here, though there seems to be little current demand for more math instruction. Or the requirement might just be raised, on both the placement tests and the level of course to be passed. At least one year of a foreign literature might be demanded...
...also noticed that intellectual excellence on the undergraduate level was in no way equated with his puritanical notions about the need for work. Apparently anticipating the fact that the proto-academics would soon be required to suffocate in book dust sixteen hours a day, the University granted a four year respite in which intellectual sophistication plus a few hours of work per week would pass for genius...
...structural level, the duality can be seen in the Graduate Schools which are primarily concerned with preparing scholars and the college which is chiefly preparing men for the world. But neither the faculty nor the students have ever been convinced that the balance between the graduate level and the undergraduate, between the scholar and the teacher, is a comfortable...
...training and by belief, the Professor thinks in terms of scholarship. His rise to tenure was part of a highly competitive system entitled "publish or perish." And even with tenure, the pressure to publish is increased as more is expected of him. While upper level courses, particularly those in the Graduate Schools might stimuate the professor or even help him, there are few professors who feel that College level lecturing is an important aid to their scholarship...
Other colleges, faced with the same problem, have attempted to use separate faculties at the College and at the graduate schools. The results have generally been disasterous. At Chicago and Columbia the teachers at the college level were considered second-rate by the university-level professors and by the better students. The morale of the faculty and the students, not to mention the quality of the teaching, suffered measurably...