Word: bachelor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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 for those men who took "tutorial." It was, however, understood that this reduction applied only to students in residence for four academic years. With the acceleration of the college course resulting from war conditions it was decided to return to the sixteen course requirements, with special provision for formal tutorial course...
...faculty got a Bachelor of Music degree at the University of Washington, began teaching in 1929, likes country schools. In addition to her teaching job, she also serves as high-school principal and district school superintendent, supervises instruction in the elementary school, and collects semiprecious stones (on a $1,900 salary...
...American phonograph records." In Cairo P. B. Stoyan dined in Oriental splendor at the home of an Egyptian Bey, a good Moslem who allowed neither women nor wine at the three-hour feast (which included five meat courses). In the Argentine Holland McCombs played host to the bachelor correspondents with an asado (barbecue) right on the edge of the pampas. And half the world away in New Delhi Bill Fisher, Bill Vandivert, Jim Shepley and Teddy White took over the mud-walled kitchen of their lodgings to cook their own really royal turkey dinner (25 pounds...
Died. Dr. James Henry Kimball, 69, longtime New York City weatherman; of apoplexy; in Manhattan. White-maned bachelor Kimball wrote the meteorological classic, Storm Log of the North Atlantic, gained nationwide acclaim in the '20s for his indispensable advice to Charles Augustus Lindbergh and his transatlantic followers...
...four, Roismann and Kroyt, are married; three have homes in Washington. The fourth, Alexander Schneider, keeps a bachelor apartment on Manhattan's swank Beekman Place. He cooks, makes pottery and prefers blondes...