Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...politically. Yet much of this division is due to lack of knowledge (a condition which can be rectified) and to a simple and natural resistance to the impact of new ideas and institutions, and above all there is the United Nations--feeble, often ineffective, yet mankind's closest approach to a world government...
Graduation week festivities will approach the 1941 norm in all respects but one this morning when the Senior Class marches into the Kirkland-Eliot-Winthrop Triangle at 11 o'clock for Class Day Exercises. The only omission is the parade to the Stadium, with the traditional confetti battle...
...field. Today's ground-floor nucleus will make or break its great chance to capture mass support tomorrow by the means it devises to implement its ideals. From the current program embracing labor rights, federal aid to education, civil liberties, and universal military training two sorts of approach can develop: the agitation tactic which alienates the men it should most woo simply because of what it is (making smalltime political capital from colossal issues) or the militant but intelligent approach which seeks to offer something concrete to the solution of actual problems. Choosing the latter will spell a busy...
...lived up to expectations of the new concept; two thirds found more interest than elsewhere in the College; and half claimed greater worth for the time spent than that offered by any other courses. Substitution of essays for hour exams and quizzes won emphatic praise. Furthermore, the dstinctive, approach outlined for GE courses from the start has been upheld: that brief coverage of numerous topics within a subject must give way to more thorough treatment of strategic considerations. Here the object is to illustrate the nature of the problems in a particular field and suggest possible methods of solution through...
Jungle Gods. The diplomatic approach has its uses for archeologists too. In 1945, Giles Greville Healey, archeologist for the United Fruit Co., struggled on foot and muleback into the ruin-haunted jungle of Mexico's state of Chiapas. His assignment: to study the Lacandon Indians, thought to be the last remnant of the fabulous Mayas. The Lacandones still speak a Maya dialect, but have relapsed into shy and gentle savagery...