Word: ge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...core to which the Tech GE program will be tied is a random study of cultures, at six weeks per culture. The culture studies usually involve guest lecturers. Margaret Mead, for example, aided a study of south sea civilization. This sort of work goes on for two years; then the student can specialize for one and a half years after which he spends a last half year in synthesizing what he has absorbed...
...ge suburb, gendarmes tried to break up a strikers' meeting. When the strikers resisted, the gendarmes opened fire, killing three and wounding two, including the burgomaster, who was shot twice in the leg. Socialist strike headquarters began to organize a "workers' march" on Brussels...
...General Education came to Harvard, it was a new idea for most undergraduates, but not all. Ever since the turn of the century, when it was founded by the late professor Barrett Wendell, the Committee on Degrees in History and Literature has quietly been practising its own brand of GE, which draws together two of the three fields of learning, and which stresses, as few other departments, the paramount general importance of a direct and personal tutorial training for all of its students...
...sentence. Vag introduced himself. He answered her questions, saying yes he was having a pretty good time at the dance, and then he felt a tap on his shoulder. Her first partner was back. Vag went to get his coat and leave. Tomorrow he would start auditing a GE course. That would kill two birds with one stone...
Perhaps an even better alternative would be a General Education course in Great English Authors. GE likes to cross departmental lines, and it likes to get something it calls Scope into its courses. A course in English authors is a setup for GE; it could be presented in the same way that GE has successfully presented the epic and novel. Such a course would satisfy the demands of non-concentrators for a basic English course, and it would give them a better background than the literary almanac which is English...