Word: fields
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Over a period of years--since, for example, the early 1900's--there has been a surprising tendency for the popularity of a certain class of subjects to remain stable, while that of others fluctuated violently. Within the latter group, it has often occurred that two fields have not only fluctuated, but have done so exactly in inverse relation to one another--indicating, obviously, a tendency of undergraduates to stampede hither and you. As popular as Economics is today, it was even more attractive to students in 1910; at that time the enrollment of Ec. A surpassed that of every...
Professor Hisaw explained that as far as Biology is concerned, "It is already a diversified field." He showed that it includes the fields of Botany, Zoology, and Physiology, and that it has very close and necessary contacts with the other scientific departments...
...From the field of Economics comes the feeling that the entire problem is far too vast to be solved by a more proposal of cross-field concentration. Harold H. Burbank, Chairman of the Department of Economics and Wells Professor of Political Economy, who has worked with the tutorial system for twenty-five years, said that the teaching staff is not large enough to follow through on the plan...
...details of the plan are concerned, Wild pointed out that while some of the cross-field concentrations are jumbled and hypothetical at present, a few of the groups of study, such as the classical tradition field, really present something of worth to the student
...September, Keppel will take up his new post as assistant dean in charge of Freshmen. As an undergraduate, he was active in extra-curricular activities. Last spring he graduated Cum Laude in English, his field of concentration...