Word: generaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...China, it has become less of an exact science. A minority of the professors of Geology who are interested in science for the sake of since have, therefore, favored crippling economics that threaten to wine out the entire subject. The attitude appears to be blind to the aims of General Education, which call for an increase in courses that cut across departmental lines. It is also blind to the need of the Government for geographers in regional planning and foreign policy. And, by ignoring this need, the cut in the Geography Department conflicts with President Conant's numerous statements emphasizing...
...advanced teaching and research to Professor Whittlesey, one of the great political geographers in the country. But if it is not a feeble hope to expect him to remain in a University which has virtually abolished his field, he should be persuaded to undertake a General Education course emphasizing the influence of geography on history, government, and economics. The University cannot afford to allow its study of geography, vitally important to understanding the nation's position as a world power, to die for departmental political or financial reasons...
Speaking before a Lowell audience, M. M. Boring, personnel manager for General Electric, said that the 41,000 would-be engineers graduating each year will find only 26,000 new openings waiting for them...
...group, which met for the first time in Adams Upper Common Room, consisted of men recommended by house masters and College deans, and interviewed by David C. Poskanzer '50, committee chairman. Qualifications for selection were "general intelligence" and an interest in College educational problems...
...common delusion--this marriage of spring and romance," said Boring. "Actually, love is a 12 months proposition. Just take a look at birth records. There's no general upward or downward curve in the popularity of love...