Abstract

Scholarship by Proxy

Krutch, Joseph Wood | October 17, 1936 issue

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At various times the research conducted in U.S. graduate schools has come in for a good deal of criticism — some of it justified and some of it not. Along with a good deal that is mediocre the accumulated doctoral dissertations issued by Harvard, Columbia, Yale and some of the lesser institutions include quite a few works of substantial merit and quite a few more which represent sound honest work in the investigation of topics which may be of no particular intrinsic importance but which have served, nevertheless, both to demonstrate the ability of the student and to afford him some training in the methods of research.

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EDUCATION, Higher -- United States; DISSERTATIONS, Academic; UNIVERSITIES & colleges -- United States; COLLEGE students -- United States; SCHOLARSHIPS -- United States; UNITED States
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