Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...program, still only in the tentative stage, would include: 1.) setting a maximum limit, possibly four years, on the time that a graduate student can take in getting his Ph.D. here; 2.) relieving students who are working for a Ph.D. of their teaching burdens by transforming teaching fellowships into postdoctoral positions; and 3.) stimulating individual Departments to eliminate "dead weight" from their degree requirements...
Elder said he would like to put a time limit on graduate study because many GSAS students at present seem to be "treading water." He pointed out that whereas most Natural Sciences students earn their Ph.D. 's in three years, in liberal arts departments the period is often five or six years and occasionally as long as nine years
...kill: "masticating grills, avulsive door handles, knife-edge eyebrows over headlights and spearlike hood ornaments." The doctors also called for the abolition of bumpers (including the bosom-like projections known as "Dagmars") and for recessed and padded dashboards, collapsible steering columns, safety belts, safety doors and a legal limit on horsepower...
About eight years ago, the company decided that lack of food is not the factor that limits guano bird population. The cold Pacific off Peru is incredibly rich in life; besides such large items as tuna and whale, it contains about 25 million tons of anchovetas, the six-inch fish that is the favorite food of the birds. The company decided that the chief reason why the birds did not increase to the limit of their abundant food supply was that their small islands were overcrowded and not in the right places for harvesting fish efficiently. The birds cannot normally...
Levine said that the Council started its drive as an attempt to show the University's foreigners that there is more to Harvard than intellectual pursuits. "Right now, most of them limit their extracurricular activities to the International Student Center," he commented...