Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Adlai E. Stevenson last night blamed the American press for public ignorance of Russia's achievements. Stevenson appared with Barabara Ward, visiting lecturer in the Graduate School of Public Administration on the television program "The Press and the People." The show was moderated by Louis M. Lyons, curator of the Nieman Fellowships...
According to Alice G. Pannell, President of Sweet Briar College, "the basic need for women's education in the 20th century is to realize the problems of the age of science and space." She called for American women to cooperate rather than compete with men and cited the importance of women "in reducing the manpower shortage...
...relation between Advanced Placement credits and requirements for concentration and degrees is still hazy; probably it is most muddled in the English Department. A new Sophomore with A.P. in, say, mathematics, American History, and English Literature would have been presented at registration with a green slip which said, "You can not take the following courses for credit: Math 1; Chemistry 1 or 2; one course in English...
...student who can amass enough learning to get Advanced Placement in three courses is often one with widespread interests. Not all A. P. students get advancement in Chemistry, Physics, and Mathematics; some get it in Mathematics, American History, and French. Thus, a boy with enough interest in widely separated areas to take stiff, advanced classes in all of them must almost immediately make up his mind to forsake two of them. One of the greatest benefits of Freshman year is that it can give an opportunity to consider the problem of devoting one's self to a single area...
Four Faculty scientists have received research grants totaling $89,719 from the American Cancer Society. The largest amount, $64,000, was awarded to Howard H. Hiatt '46, associate in Medicine, for a study of cell control mechanisms...