Word: generalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nation's public schools. Although supporters of this aid to education are reasonably confident that the House and Senate will agree with the measure, they are also understandably nervous. For the last 30 years, the national legislature has consistently batted down so-called "general-aid" education bills, although it has approved such specific programs as land-grant colleges and funds for vocational training...
International law and relations is probably the most general but most interesting section of the department, as for as the average sudent is concerned. Professor Wild leads the group as a lecturer here, giving an excellent fall term course in international law with a slightly less good follow-up in America's role in world politics...
...social sciences other than history (i.e. Government, Economics, or Social Relations). A second course may be selected with the approval of the tutor or adviser from any subject closely related to the concentrator's special field. These minimum requirements allow a lot of room for what is fashionably called General Education...
...drudgery of weekly map work will not be included in Social Sciences 1. The course isn't required for concentration but one General Education course in the social sciences is urged for the freshman year and Social Sciences 1 is particularly relevant to the needs of concentrators...
...weekly or biweekly tutorial sessions are designed to round out and integrate the student's mastery of history in general and of his special field in particular. Outside reading is assigned and a certain number of special tutorial essays are due each term. The aims of the reading and essays are not only to increase factual knowledge but more particularlly to develop facility in oral and written expression and the habits of independent investigation and thought...