CRIMSON Report Misconstrues Elder

The CRIMSON would like to clarify a few misconceptions arising from its report yesterday of Dean Elder's talk on applicants to and teaching fellows at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

Elder did not say, as reported, that a Group III man would make a better scholar and teacher than a Group I or II man. Rather, he said that the GSAS ought not invariably to prefer the Group I or II man, and that in a number of cases the lively and imaginative Group III man might turn out to be a better bet in the long run.

Secondly, in speaking of Teaching Fellows, he stated that their life was so busy and full that the high quality of most of their teaching was "fairly miraculous." He did not state that their teaching "adversely affects the quality of teaching in the College." Commenting yesterday, Elder remarked, "On the contrary, I rather suspect that it improves it!"

As for the scholarship money available for graduate students, it is not $950,000, but only a little more than a third of this sum.