Word: core
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hitler is today lying dead on a street in Berlin, like Benito Mussolini on a sidewalk in Milan, there will be few people in Germany who will be mourning his passing. The few will be the Nazi Party's fanatic core who still believe in Naziism, and for that belief and for the sake of their own lives fight on. A growing majority of Germans, however, are looking on Adolf Hitler today with bitterness and angry despair as the man who gambled them and their lives away...
...campus at Hamilton, N.Y., last week, Colgate's faculty met, after months of deep thinking, to put finishing touches to a sweeping new plan for postwar study. Based on an earlier Colgate Plan, the new Core Curriculum is "frankly and deliberately built around a core of [seven] prescribed and intimately related courses" (natural science, public affairs, philosophy and religion, foreign areas and cultures, English communication, the arts, the liberal tradition...
Required for every student throughout his four years, the Core will be organized without regard to departmental lines...
...York Stock Exchange; a course in public affairs with attendance at New York State Legislature sessions in Albany.) The faculty will also maintain an intensive preceptorial system to give personal help on the side. To make up for the high percentage (two-fifths) of class hours which the Core will absorb, Colgate will encourage its applicants to come fully prepared in basic language and composition requirements, so that less time will have to be spent on them in college...
Sparkplug of the new program is clear-eyed, billiard-bald President Case, 44, who was dubbed by a Princeton classmate ('22) "the man whose forehead is most likely to recede." Slow-moving but thorough, "Ev" Case well knows that the success of the Core depends, more than anything else, on having a crack, wellrounded, flexible faculty. By his own steady example in his two and a half years at Colgate, he has impressed the value of these qualities on the older hands. For the future, he has a sharp eye out for men who consider college teaching an education...