Word: fields
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Faculty Council's recommendations of cross-field concentrations will see their first practical application today, as Dean Chase appoints four committees to deal with the down-to-brass-tacks problems of the Council proposal. The plan has already met its first criticism, in the light of its function under the University system, as the opinions of four professors were submitted yesterday...
Opinions coming from the scientific departments seemed to convey the general opinion that the new plan of cross-field and area concentrations will not create much change in the present setup. Both Professor Frederick A. Saunders, Chairman of the Physics Department, and Professor Frederick L. Hisaw, Chairman of the Biology Department, were of the opinion that the scientific fields are already broad enough to satisfy the requirements of practically any student interested in a scientific education...
...There is no great urgency in any of the sciences for inter-departmental concentration," declared Professor Saunders. He went on to say that the proposals of the Faculty Council were actually an extension of the existing system. They allow students to go ahead with cross-field studies without submitting their plans for the individual faculty consideration necessary at present...
...Hisaw's Field Already Broad
...that it is a U. S. best-seller,÷ a German publishing firm prepared to bring out All This, and Heaven Too in Germany, asked Author Rachel Lyman Field for permission to put her name on the title page simply as "Lyman Field." Reason: by Nazi decree, Rachel is one of the names officially allotted to German Jewesses. Aryan Author Field refused...