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Word: academicized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Economist-Senator Myrdal was chosen by Carnegie's trustees to make this major American study because he was 1) an able scholar, 2) not an American, and thus could look at Negroes with an "entirely fresh mind." Perhaps not since de Tocqueville and Bryce has the U.S. had such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Dilemma | 2/7/1944 | See Source »

West Coast draft boards got orders last week to start reclassifying their U.S.-born Japanese for induction into the armed forces. The announcement was not even of academic interest to one member of the Nisei, 25-year-old Ben Kuroki.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - HEROES: Ben Kuroki, American | 2/7/1944 | See Source »

During the quarter of a century before the war a flexible set of requirements had been developed in Harvard College in such a way as to adjust instruction to the needs of the individual, allow sufficient time for independent study in tutorial work and strike a proper balance between regular...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Continues to Require Minimum of Sixteen Credits to Graduate in Wartime | 2/1/1944 | See Source »

In former times, and before the full development of the tutorial system, sixteen or more courses were required for the bachelor's degree. When the tutorial system was installed, because of the large amount of time necessary for independent study under that program, the course requirements were reduced to fifteen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Continues to Require Minimum of Sixteen Credits to Graduate in Wartime | 2/1/1944 | See Source »

Yale and Harvard talked last week about their plans for postwar education. On one point they were agreed: government financial aid must not threaten academic control. Then they parted:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Yale v. Harvard | 1/31/1944 | See Source »

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