Word: seymour
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...making these changes, we hope to enrich our tutorial program," said Seymour E. Harris '20, chairman of the Department of Economics, yesterday. "Honors students will receive more careful, personal attention," he added...
...Seymour E. Harris '20, chairman of the Economics Department, said his department also had no plans to reconsider additional measures, and, in fact, stated his belief that "a great many graduate students who stay around for a long time get a great deal out of it." He proposed an increased concentration on the M.A. in order to "produce needed teachers for junior colleges," and asserted that the greatest need of the GSAS was refusing to admit second-rate students, who at present constitute "about 25 per cent" of the enrollment...
MacLeish spoke on "Poetry and Journalism" at the eighth of the University's Gideon Seymour lectures, a series named for a late Minneapolis newspaper editor...
Changes in accordance with this aspect of the CEP proposals, have come less rapidly in other major fields of concentration. Seymour E. Harris '20, chairman of the Department of Economics, said yesterday, "It is basically a problem for the Houses...
...Ph.D.s "persist in their perverse modesty and deliberately hide the fact that they are doctors." Even worse, "they help demean their profession further by lending themselves to the widespread practice ... of handing out honorary doctor's degrees . . . like lollipops." Seymour's recommendation: replacing honorary doctorates with O.C.C. (Outstanding Citizen of the Community) degrees, so that recipients cannot masquerade as hand-carved Ph.D.s. Whatever happens, it is probable that Ph.D.s will, willy-nilly, go on passing as ordinary mortals. Byline on the Educational Record piece: plain "Harold Seymour...