Word: departmentalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Pusey also addressed the gathering of alumni, University and Athletic Department officials, and freshman, junior varsity, and varsity team members, saying "The team did a wonderful job."
The French have provoked your writer (November 4), Mr. Rothenberg. French foreign policy, he tells us, lacks content and compounds injured vanity with a facade of anachronistic grandeur. Asserting that the French are a second-rate power, he wishes them to play the part, with help, if necessary, from the...
The committee rightly emphasized, however, that the historical method of teaching geography should be instituted here. Although used extensively in Europe, this method of teaching has never won favor in the United States. It does provide a logical connection with the Department of History--and a possible means of lessening...
A chair in geography could be set up and financed in part by the Department of History. There is precedent for such an arrangement. Henry C. Darby, noted English geographer, taught a course at the University last year stressing the interrelation of geography and English historical development.
Such an interdisciplinary approach in teaching geography would benefit the University. Historical geography, geopolitics, or economic geography all provide fruitful approaches which should be explored. It does little good, however, to advance grandoise plans for a completely new department without a concrete plan for achieving them.