Word: depth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thomas J. Wilson, 64, a Rhodes scholar, former French teacher and executive vice president of Henry Holt & Co., has developed at the Harvard University Press a book list considered to be the best in range of topics and depth of study. He took over the press in 1947, at a time when President James Conant considered it so inert and expensive that he wanted to abolish it. Now it turns out massive works of scholarship, such as the Adams family papers, which may run to 100 volumes (13 have been completed), as well as topical titles like Edwin Reischauer...
...depart radically from that which attended the beginning. Dangers which at the outset of hostilities seemed to justify the most sanguinary steps in the perspective of years seem slight, sometimes frivolous. And prospects which at the beginning of conflict seemed easy and brilliant come to measure only the depth of the miscalculation. The case of men who in the last 30 years have planned expeditions against Moscow, Pearl Harbor and Pusan--not to mention Jerusalem and Tel Aviv--sufficiently establishes the point...
...subcommittee report recommends that broad interdepartmental courses be substituted for the department requirements, courses which will teach the student a method of acquiring medical knowledge and provide him with a general background of essential information. Departments would offer specialized electives to deal with specific problems in depth, the workload of requirements would be lessened, new courses would be offered, and professors would be given a chance to teach small groups...
...certain important aspects of this activism, though born in other classes, have come to fruition in this one. What was most significant about the commitment and involvement in the class of '67 was not so much the range or depth of participation -- which, after all was a characteristic of activism throughout the sixties--but rather the sense of frustration and impotence which it produced...
Shaw and Colburn were unbeatable in the mile. In five dual meets the opponents scored only one third place, as John Heyburn and Gerry Brock provided depth. Erik Roth, Shaw, Brock, and Heyburn were nearly equally as powerful in the two mile. Highlight of the season was Denny Aylward's gutty two mile victory in the Andover meet...