Word: basic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Probing the heart of the American educational dilemma, the University Committee, in its Report published yesterday, sees in the development of the high school a basic problem of democratic society...
...Yale report recognizes no twin fields of General and Special Education for college students; instead, it divides its instruction into Basic Studies, Distribution, and the Major, illustrating the qualities of compromise inherent in the plan. Despite the lack of unity of purpose, however, the Yale Committee has drawn up specific proposals which cover in many ways the same ground as do the plans of the Harvard group...
...Nicolaevsky: "The participation of both Okano and Ozaki in the Alliance proves Stalin's willingness to avail himself of every Japanese supporter of an agreement with Russia. The silence about the Mikado shows that no special importance is attributed to the problem of monarchy. . . . The Alliance's basic line . . . consists in forming Japanese cadres ready to support Stalin's Eastern policy, and in averting . . . British and American predominance in China after...
...science. Last week the chief of the wartime scientific high command dropped his blueprint on President Truman's desk. The plan, drafted by Dr. Bush and four committees composed of leading U.S. scientists, would require the Federal Government to spend some $122,500,000 a year to support basic scientific research and the education of young scientists...
...favor of this plan Dr. Bush and associates offered some stern arguments: despite vast expenditures on wartime research ($720,000,000 in 1944 alone), the U.S. is on the brink of scientific bankruptcy. Reason: it has used up its backlog of basic scientific knowledge. During the war U.S. scientists, drafted almost to a man for work on new weapons, gadgets, drugs, etc., have done virtually no basic research. Moreover, the U.S., unlike every other great power, has stopped training young scientists: Dr. Bush's group estimates that the war will cost the nation 167,000 potential scientists and doctors...