Word: fields
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...principal discovery which was made during the season at Uaxactun in the Maya field consisted of an important stucco covered pyramid probably dating from about 72 B. C.," said Dr. Sylvanus Griswald Morley '07, archeologist and Associate of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, to a CRIMSON reporter recently...
...Morley will make his twenty-third visit to Central America this winter. He possesses some remarkable slides of Maya civilization on specially prepared unbreakable glass. He stated that he owed his interest in anthropology to courses in that field he took while an undergraduate in the University...
...sixty so-called "maturity credits", the manner of obtaining which is not readily discernible from the article, implies the abolition of an integrated study in one field. Although provision is to be made for specialization during the last two years, it is not, on the one hand obligatory; and on the other. It may be carried so far as to exclude any courses outside the chosen field of the student...
...becoming more and more the defect of the Harvard system. Overzealous tutors encourage their charges to get their distribution off in their first two years--out of the way like an old shoe. Students attentive to this somewhat myopic suggestion often find themselves forgetting the excellencies outside their field just as they are acquiring the maturity to enjoy them. One of the purposes of Harvard's present system is the elimination of this sort of thing, and it is unfortunate that the Ph.D attitude occasionally mitigates its potential usefulness. Columbia's new plan does nothing to remove this loophole...
...touch of human sympathy--one finds that justice has been a main chord. South and North, each has its turn--probably the reason both these sections of our country have acclaimed the book as a classic. A striking feature is the manner in which Benet handles such a wide field. One might say the war is dealt with in terms of various imaginary individuals and their reactions. This lends that personal touch which serves equally well as a main, solemn connecting thread through out the story and as a gripping bond with the reader. With all the many complications which...