Word: mcgrath
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...rest of the starting team is Phil Klein, a 6 ft., 3 in., sophomore, and 6 ft., 2 in., Bill McGrath at forwards, and Leroy Haythorn, 6 ft., and Paul Goldberger, 6 ft., 1 in., at guards. Goldberger, a sophomore averaging 10 points per game, is injured and might be replaced by 5 ft., 11 in., John O'Leary...
...solution must be found, even though McGrath achieves nothing by proposing to cheapen the research degree. The college will not survive unless it can find a separate purpose in society. Even if it devotes itself to the education of citizens, rather than the employment and production of scholars, it will only succeed if the universities also recognize that teaching of teachers is as important an aim as the increase of knowledge...
...depressing thing about Dean Elder's disapproval of Earl McGrath's proposal to shorten the Ph.D. is that both Elder and McGrath are right. The growing shortage of college and high school teachers is neither imagined nor the result of foolish rules, but the inevitable result of an apparently irresolvable confusion of roles between College and University...
...decline of the M.A., which is the remnant of a teaching degree, into a device for sloughing out the mistakes of the admissions offices, has made the Ph.D. into the only valid post-graduate degree. But McGrath's proposal that study for the degree should be shortened to two years compromises the research value of the degree. An entirely new degree, or a resurrection of the M.A., is the only solution to the Ph.D. bottleneck...
...opposing McGrath's plan, Elder pointed out that any Ph.D. earned in less than four years would be of inferior quality. "I would view with great alarm any plan for a Ph.D. in two or two and a half years," Elder added...