Word: basic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time we reviewed the lecture situation at Princeton and sought to establish the desirability of such a reform as that initiated by Professor Vaughan. It was our contention that the ideal of the Princeton lecture-precept system was to develop the student's faculty of interpreting and associating the basic text-book data of a course, that this ideal was not being subserved under present conditions, when in many cases lectures are merely concentrated doses of factual information, and that in consequence a remedy should be worked out along the lines of Professor Vaughan's innovation...
Since Bio-chemistry offers no courses of its own, it has to depend on the other three Departments for instruction. These are planned for the students concentrating in them, and not for those needing a more general knowledge. The Bio-chemistry student should cover the basic work in each subject rapidly, and then proceed to advanced courses. But the fundamental courses which he needs are not given so that he can take them consecutively. For instance, in Zoology the three courses which are prerequisite to advanced work are given during the first half of the year. Since the first...
...greatest guarantee for permanent peace in the Far East would come from a League investigation, accepted by the powers concerned. Such an investigation might lead to agreement on basic unsettling issues. It would certainly be the best means of solving the Manchurian problem with equal consideration for China's legal rights and for the exigency of Japan's economic needs...
Nowhere is the desirability of mastering rudiments better illustrated than in the Fine Arts Department which insists that all students take an elementary course in drawing and design, or else demonstrate that they have completed equivalent basic work...
...bore that name. So they agreed on Ballyhoo. Discovering later that there was no objection to the use of Hullabaloo, Publisher Delacorte decided to have another magazine with that name before someone else could start competition to the astonishingly successful Ballyhoo (current issue: 1,750,000 copies). Following the basic idea of Ballyhoo, which makes fun of advertising, advertisers and the press at large, Hullabaloo would make fun of the cinema. First issue of Hullabaloo appeared in Manhattan last week, about a fortnight earlier than scheduled...