Word: fields
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...WILD, by Samuel Scoville Jr. (William Morrow & Co., $2.00), contains 13 stories of wild animals in their native haunts; the stories of fennecs in South Africa, grey wolves of the Artic, and cobras in India. Mr. Scoville, the author of three other books on wild life, and a field naturalist of long standing, evidently knows his subject well, and has the imagination and ability to give the reader an extremely vivid picture of the scene he portrays...
...merit of many contemporary American authors is recognised in South America and most of their works which have been translated into Spanish are very popular. The South American field, however, is rather neglected by American publishers. Your technical magazines especially are of great use to us as authorities in scientific and industrial developments...
...field of economics, Chile has possibilities that are perhaps not appreciated. We mine 38 percent of the copper of the world, while the United States mines 34 percent. Our iron resources are also greater than those of the United States. The preeminence of Chile in the nitrate industry is better known. We produce 1000,000,000 tons of nitrate yearly...
...field of concentration in Sociology and Social Ethics which this year supercedes concentration in Social Ethics alone, provides among a diversity of courses in several departments, a new unity and directness which its more limited predecessor did not have. From a department which was distinguished by its picaresque field trips and a general lack of seriousness among its students has been created a field analogous to that of History and Literature, permitting a ramification among all allied subjects, but with application under the guidance of a tutor that should bring substantial result...
...Rousseau and now applied by Dr. Meiklejohn in his experimental college at Wisconsin. And the danger that such broadness should prove superficial or produce a vaguely theoretic sentimentality should be effectively removed by the requirement of a thesis and individual research in a chosen aspect of the work. The Field of Sociology and Social Ethics, thus reorganized and widened, is a welcome and worthy mate of the present fields, and takes its legitimate place as a subject for the consideration of the Freshman class...