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...return, Taylor took over the first half of History 1 at Radcliffe and continued as a section man in the same course at Harvard until 1930. The year 1927 was an especially big one for him, as he gained his PhD, became a tutor, and was appointed assistant professor...
...first time in the school's history, the PhD. candidates will wear red academic robes in the processional. This year Radcliffe will award 36 Ph.D.'s, the largest number ever granted from the school in any one year. Thirty-nine M.A.'s and 49 M.A.'s in Education will also be awarded...
Whereas it would be relatively simple, he maintained, to turn out 50 more PhD's a year, who could in turn educate 750 more AB's, it would be much more difficult to expand the college. He pointed out the physical difficulties, such as overcrowding in the Houses and libraries; the educational difficulties, such as unwieldy class and tutorials; and the social difficulties, such as the loss of a feeling of student cohesiveness...
What of visiting scholars? "We don't want to handicap scholarship," Metcalf has maintained, "but the University is not in a position to operate a free public library." Yet the Yale PhD. candidate can use Widner for nothing. While the Harvard graduate student must pay $200 for almost identical privileges...
Approximately $230 as the Chase Prize was awarded to Richard W. Cotam, PhD. '54 for his thesis, "Iran: A case Study of Nationalism." The prize is given "for the best essay on a subject relating to the promotion of world peace...