Word: generalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tailor-Made. While he looked for good men for the jobs at home, Harry Truman succeeded last week in filling two tough diplomatic posts abroad with men practically tailor-made to his specifications. To succeed Lieut. General Walter Bedell Smith as ambassador to Moscow, the President wanted someone who would not run wild with ideas of his own, could be depended on to execute instructions to the letter, and to maintain the tough U.S. military front that seems best understood in Moscow. The man he picked is poker-faced, tough Vice Admiral Alan Goodrich Kirk...
Thomas Wilcox, secretary of the Teachers' Union and Teaching Fellow in General Education, pointed out that the board of regents at Washington had reversed the recommendation made by a faculty committee...
Joseph Butterworth, another of the ousted professors, will speak to the meeting of the Harvard Teachers' Union at 1 p.m. today in Young Lee's Restaurant. He will speak on academic freedom in general, and the Washington case in particular...
...General Education and the Social Relations department both pick up special attention in the article. "The General Education program was mapped out in... 1943... The courses have been criticized by many specialists as being too superficial and watered down to be of much value." Roosevelt also revives the story of Professors Bruner and Stouffer's November lecture before Soc. Rel. 1a, in which they ruled out any possibility of Truman's election. "They were just as wrong as Mr. Gallup...
Season tickets under the new plan will still be offered to alumni before the general public; but the latter may buy full-season locations before single-game seats are thrown open to sale. There is no change planned in the present undergraduate allocations at present...