Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York's Judge Samuel Seabury seemed almost an anachronism in the gay, irreverent 1920s. The son, grandson and great-grandson of clergymen, he saw part of life through the stained-glass windows of the Protestant Episcopal Church. He saw another part with the solemn, pince-nezed gaze of a reform-minded lawyer and jurist. The worst of what he saw was symbolized by James John Walker, New York City's twice-elected (1925, 1929) mayor. Jimmy Walker, top hat perched jauntily askew, wisecracked his way through the '20s like a handsome Bacchus, and it was perhaps inevitable...
Requirements for the Ph.D. degree in Government have been revised with an increased emphasis on individual work, Samuel H. Beer, chairman of the Government Department, announced yesterday. The new requirements will take effect next fall, unless changes are made at the next meeting of the Department...
...Perhaps we are unjust," Samuel H. Beer declares, but the Government Department keeps its graduate program small, in order to attract only the best people. Seventy-three graduates participate in the program. All but two of the fourteen courses currently offered, however, have undergraduate members. Nearly 30 per cent of the enrollment in these courses is undergraduate. This percentage of participation has showed little discernible difference between the bright upperclassman and the beginning graduate student. A concentrator in the department for three years who is involved in writing an honors thesis may well be of higher caliber than the first...
Robert G. McCloskey, recently-appointed professor of Government, has been named Chairman of the Department of Government for next year. He will succeed Samuel H. Beer, professor of Government, who will spend the year on sabbatical leave, writing in England...
...proposals, which include graded tutorial and examinations for the honors candidate at the end of each of his three upperclass years, will probably be supported by most of the Government Department. Samuel H. Beer, Chairman of the Department of Government, said that "the Government Department has always favored a strong tutorial system...