Word: general
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...recently approved report of the Committee on Science in General Education, the Committee suggested that the goals of a science course for non-scientists were 1) communication of "a knowledge of the fundamental principles of a special science, and 2) to give the student an idea of the methods of science as they are known today...
Professors in the General Education Nat. Sci. courses were unanimous yesterday in their opinion that existing Nat. Sci. courses are quite satisfactory and that no significant changes are being planned for them next year...
William G. Weston, professor of Cryptogamic Botany, emeritus, said that he and Edward O. Wilson, associate professor of Zoology, who teaches the other half of Nat. Sci. 8, "certainly do not plan any drastic changes." He said that "although some people seem to feel that the General Education courses are waterd-down for non-concentrators, Nat. Sci. 8 is not and will not be as long as I am around...
...with a ranger battalion that had hit the Normandy beaches, including the wounded. He helped write a series of 16 monographs on landings, concentrating his efforts on the story of Omaha Beach. After the war, series on the workings of the engineers, the medics, the supply corps, and the general staff were prepared, modeled after the original case studies...
...last three OSS men in Germany when the group was disbanded, Ford had his most interesting experience after V-E Day. In line with his work on political reorganization, he sat in on interviews with captured generals. His closest contact was with General Guderian, whose mind he characterizes as "naive politically, but brilliant and retentive." The former chief of the German General Staff provided for the trial of his colleagues...