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...wounded another. The third got away - with DiMaggio's money. The papers all ran big stories on the East Side Earp, as one reporter called him, but Charlie was fed up with public ity. "Patting you on the back," snapped Charlie, "doesn't put butter on my ta ble. It doesn't feed the family." And nothing seems to keep bandits out of his shop. The only way to do that, Charlie figures, is to get into some safer business - like police work...
Jack Daniel's & Aristotle. Students find it easier to approach the TAs than the professors, and they exchange views more candidly in a TA section or, as at Harvard, in a small tutorial session. "Occasionally you run into a student who really does know more than you do," concedes Harvard Fellow Howard Felperin, 24. "Then you don't get a teacher-student relationship but a mutual inquiry." Sometimes, admits Janis Hull, 27, an attractive brunette and a three-year TA at Cal, "you have to guard against too much social involvement." She recalls the "young gentleman student...
...TA chooses to press his own first interest, which is the pursuit of a Ph.D., the system can degenerate into what Harvard Senior Herbert Denton calls "a kind of WPA for grad students." Harvard pays $1,080 for each section a fellow teaches, allows him to handle up to three, limits the job to four years. Cal pays $2,500 for a half-time teaching load the first year, with small raises later. Thus while an un married TA can survive on his stipend, a married grad must put his wife to work-and even then, says Cal Graduate Dean...
...Enormous Amherst." Dean Elberg defends the TA system on grounds that "it allows the university to break up large classes into smaller units and then give individual instruction-it begins to humanize the institution." Professor Albritton contends that Harvard cannot increase the teaching load of its top professors without losing "a certain type of person on whom its distinction depends-Harvard would simply become an enormous Amherst...
...bedrock defense of the TA system is that it is inevitable in the current state of supply and demand of teachers and students. "Short of a major expansion, I don't see how the system could be changed," asserts David Thomas, 30, a fellow at Harvard. And for its admitted defects the system offers an ultimate remedy: when the next baby boom (that is, the children of the now-maturing last one) comes along, U.S. universities should have a much ampler supply of professors, many of them former TAs or students...