Word: present
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last night's Freshman Union Committee meeting, members voted unanimous disapproval of the UAC's action. Richard Crystal '62, of the present cheerleading squad, initiated the motion to censor...
...nays that resounded from the faculty meeting last week over Dean Elder's plan to limit Ph.D. study to four years must have come either from aroused protective instincts or from simple misunderstanding. Possibly the various departments suspect in the Dean's proposals a plot to catalyze his present comfortable hold into an iron grip. Or they may think the proposals would really alter the structure of graduate study. Both of these fears should cease...
...this case the abuses of graduate study come from within the departments themselves. It is the men who drag on as long as fifteen years in vague pursuit of a Ph.D., stalling, cluttering the files with never-consummated thesis topics, who abuse the admirable leniency of the present system. Yet not everyone can or should manage a thesis in three years and a degree in four. Factors such as the depth of the research required or the unusual nature of the study topic make a strictly unexceptionable time limit undesirable...
...Wednesday, Dogherty criticized the present Council as "composed of members. . . whose main object is to use Council membership to push personal political endeavors." The proposed inter-House committee, Dogherty feels, would eliminate this objection to a great degree...
However, Dogherty does not think that the petition will succeed in forcing a Council referendum on the matter. "But the debate stimulated by such a campaign might bring out new and effective ways of strengthening the present Council," he said...