Word: core
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Europe, have always been one land mass. Now, with the emergence of Russia as No. 1 power in both regions, they were a single political continent. Last week this new political continent, like a vast volcanic crust, heaved and hissed, threw up craters of political lava from the smoldering core below, burned with friction at its edges, especially those edges where for ages Europe has grated against Asia-the Aegean area and the Turkish Straits...
Professor Jones, on a one year's leave of absence from the University, has prepared textbooks which will form the core of the English course for the German POWs. The book will be used not only to tech the elements of English, but size to further among the prisoners a better understanding of American ideals and traditions...
Every Freshman who enters after the inauguration of the core curriculum will be required to take Natural Science for two terms. The course will emphasize "the methods of the broad field of natural science" and will be conducted by a case method similar to that outlined by President Conant in his recent proposal for "science courses for non scientists...
Programs of all Juniors will, under the core curriculum, include a curse in the Arts. "By sharpening the students' immediate perceptions through understanding of and immediate response to the works studied in the fields of architecture, sculpture, painting, photography, music, and literature, the course should," according to its intent, "increase their appetite for personal discovery...
...final course of the core curriculum is in the Liberal Tradition and is compulsory for Seniors. Its aim is to give the graduating class an integration of their studies in the core curriculum and a grasp of the aims and methods of liberal education