Word: field
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...learn to write with his right hand; but he played left-handed tennis well enough to star on his high school team and make the varsity at Yale. Despite his damaged arm, he enlisted in the Army in 1918, lying about his age to get in, won a field-artillery commission at 17 (the war ended before he got overseas...
...Marine Colonel Robert Debs Heinl Jr. impatiently waved his heavy swagger stick one day last week as Haitian troops dashed across a drill field in Port-au-Prince and hit the dirt in platoon combat formation. "That looked like hell," grumped Heinl, "but when we can't find any mistakes, the time will have come for us to leave." In the sprawling headquarters of the International Cooperation Administration in downtown Port-au-Prince, ICA Director for Latin America Rollin Atwood wound up a rigid, five-day inspection and said: "From a year ago, Haiti has made tremendous progress...
...core of the School's program is the "Conference," a method of teaching particularly useful in the field of public affairs. Intended to "train students in the investigation of domestic and international issues, in public speaking and debate, and in the art of group deliberation and decision," each Conference runs for one term and considers such topics as "The United States and European Integration" and "The Role of the Government in Developing Nuclear Power." Each term of Conference requires the concentrator to prepare a long research paper, and eventually to defend it before a group of undergraduates...
Second, the undergraduate program of concentration--spread over four disciplines--could provide nothing more than a survey of each. "A man could just splatter himself all over without getting very deeply into the complexities of any one field," says Professor Gardner Patterson, Director of the School. "Although we offer a wide area of choice," he added, "we demand that the choices be made with care...
...thesis (At Princeton, no sharp distinction is made between honors students and those who shuffle along in a non-honors program: everyone writes a senior thesis. There is also a three-part senior comprehensive examination,--an essay on a very broad question, a second essay on a set of field problems, and a rather specific question which is not, however, "course-oriented...