Word: ge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...large introductory courses feared that Gen. Ed would mean an end to the packed lecture halls. When possible these courses were considered a part of General Education and the professors were mollified. The science departments lobbied and eventually won permission for science students to be exempted from the GE Natural Science requirement. These concessions were all handled through the CEP, where the administration could be sure that the political concessions it was making to get the program through were not altering the purposes of GE. By December, and after seven Faculty meetings, all parts of the program had passed...
...Faculty also voted to allow entrants, when "their superior achievement in secondary school is considered to have contributed significantly to the objectives of the General Education program," to omit one or two elementary GE courses and meet the requirements with additional upper level courses. Permission to omit these courses will be denied or granted under regulations formulated by the Special Standing Committee and the Committee on General Education. Under the same procedure, men will be excused from Gen Ed Ahf they show superior ability in English composition, "in appropriate achievement tests or by other prescribed means...
...moreover, that a small but significant number of journals using the United Press were trying to angle their coverage away from the University. At least 25 percent of these papers, including the Detroit "News," overlooked the Furry-Kamin hearing except as an after thought in the story of the GE hearing...
...lifetime preparing for his dictionary. The crotchety son of a hotelkeeper in Toucy, he moved to the Paris Latin Quarter just so he could study. Each morning for eight years, he would emerge from his dingy room, make a tour of lectures at the Sorbonne, the Collège de France, the Observatory, and then, after 6, retire to the library to study some more. After a stint of teaching, he began writing textbooks on Latin, Greek, and French grammar, finally hit upon the idea of a dictionary-encyclopedia. Crouched behind his desk, he worked 16 hours...
...recent gathering of the clergy of Toulouse, peppery, 83-year-old Cardinal Saliège pointed a blunt finger at a group of young priests sitting in the back of the room. "Nous vous avons à l'oeil, mes gaillards [We're keeping an eye on you, my lads]!" he warned them...