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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ph.D. is bound to defy exact definition in terms of time. But yet need the time-factor be so very imprecise? Generally the Ph.D. takes at least four years to get; more often it takes six or seven, and not infrequently ten to fifteen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Committee Suggests Revisions of Ph.D. | 11/1/1957 | See Source »

Financial need, to be sure, often comes into the picture. But all the same we know that too many programs have taken too many years simply because faculty members and the graduate office have failed to give hard-headed advice at the right time, have shied away from making their students work hard enough, and have generally thought a well-bred air of amateurishness more gentlemanly and becoming than down-to-earth efficiency. If we put our heads to the matter, certainly we ought to be able to say to a good student: "With a leeway of not more than...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Committee Suggests Revisions of Ph.D. | 11/1/1957 | See Source »

...force, happens to have an extremely youthful face. This means, for example, that he can never smile fully; he frowns and glares and looks gloomy even more constantly than his part requires. His posture, his vigorous strides, and even some of his highly dramatic gestures also remind us too often that this master builder is a member of the very younger generation against which Ibsen's master builder carries on the fight that is the heart of the play. Yet Jordan has excellence; when he underplays, he is usually most persuasive, and in the voicing of passionate or solemn crucial...

Author: By Larry Hartmann, | Title: The Master Builder | 10/31/1957 | See Source »

Moira Wylie, as Hilda, the young, bright worshipper of the master builder, who nonetheless represents the generation that he fights, is, in brief glimpses, ebullient and vital. Too often, however, she stands firmly, awkwardly, unnaturally, for little reason. This may be the director's fault...

Author: By Larry Hartmann, | Title: The Master Builder | 10/31/1957 | See Source »

White indicated that either of these sites was convenient for the Social Relations and Psychology Departments, which will occupy the proposed building. The Littauer area is near the Computation Labs, which the Social Relations and Psychology Departments often use. The other location, added White, would be close enough to the Biological Labs to be helpful to the departments...

Author: By Charles I. Kingson, | Title: White Names Two Sites For Behavior Building | 10/30/1957 | See Source »

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