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...suppose the next state constitution will insure the right to life, liberty, and a Ph. D. degree." President Lowell remarked in the course of a talk before a reorganization meeting of the University of Missouri Alumni Association of New England last night in the Faculty Club of the Business School...
...confess, moreover, that the introduction and maintenance of the two-hours conference system has been far from easy. It presupposes a very unusual type of professor--the sympathetic, lovable type, whom students will recognize instantly as a friend. A Phi Beta Kappa key, a Ph. D., an aptitude for research, and the authorship of half a dozen, text-books may be sufficient to qualify a man for a professorship at the ordinary college, but not at Rollins. I never call a man to Rollins unless, beyond all this, former students of his tell me that he is a human being...
Such an informal, unhampered access to the advantages of the University is in direct contrast to the established ritual required of those passing through the mill, grinding out its yearly crop of Ph. D.'s. It might be suggested that the Commonwealth scholars derive as much advantage from their unconventional methods of study as those earnest young men whose end in life is to enjoy the prestige of a Doctorship...
...University of Chicago, in which the graduate students of each department are given opportunities to teach under the supervision of some experienced educator and are also offered a special course on the problems of college teaching. A corollary to this proposal would be the granting of two separate Ph. D. degrees, one for those who plan to go on with educational work and the other degree to those primarily interested in research...
Died. John Thompson Dorrance, Ph. D., 56, president of Campbell Soup Co., a director of Pennsylvania Railroad, Prudential Life Insurance Co., Guaranty Trust Co. of New York, four other companies; after a heart attack, at his home in Cinnaminson, N.J. Dr. Dorrance had degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Gottingen, Germany. But such confidence had he in his canned, condensed soup idea that he went to work at $7.50 a week for a canning company, amassed a fortune of $22,000,000. With the exception of the late King Edward VII he was the only foreigner...