Word: fold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...body of knowledge. The first answer doesn't lead logically to a doubled science requirement; surely a student can learn the "scientific method" from a decent one-year Nat Sci course. The second answer doesn't lead to a doubled requirement either, but to one increased a hundred-fold, for there will never be agreement about which science everyone needs more of. Suppose the Faculty requires each student to take two years of biology. Will he then understand the space program? If more science means more scientific knowledge, four terms--indeed 16 terms--of science are clearly not "enough...
Instead, each student would be required to take four courses outside his area of concentration. Retaining the present three-fold division of Gen Ed courses (but with the suggestion that they be renamed Humanities, Sciences, and Social Studies), the program would require a student to take at least one course in each area outside his field...
...Challenge," a PBH tutoring program for bright seventh and eighth graders from lower socio-economic areas of Cambridge, will expand nearly four-fold this semester, Elisha M. Gray '66, director of the project, announced yesterday...
...ultra sonic sound and flying toward echoes that bounce back from their prey. It is a simple and effective system, but Dr. Roeder proved several years ago that noctuid moths can hear the search sonar of a cruising bat and take evasive action. To save their lives, they fold their wings and dive to the ground or shift suddenly into a zigzag course (TIME, June...
...explain it. It was like a sudden burst of flame." Peggy fed the fire as long as she could resist returning to Europe. In 1949 she established herself in her 18th century Venetian palazzo, began collecting Lhasa terriers for lap dogs and adding young artists to her fold, while gondoliers awarded her the title of "the last Duchess" for her ribald, regal ways...