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...interests of the students who take these courses have become so divergent that they cannot be handled by the present basic sequence of chemistry courses: Chem 1 or 6, Chem 20, and Chem 60. The pre-med finds much of the material that is presented irrelevant to his main interest -- bio-chemistry. The chem concentrator is held back by the large number of relatively uninterested pre-meds in his classes. The instructors are faced with the problem of too much general material to cover in too little time, and have made chemistry courses unreasonably time consuming and lacking in depth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Splitting Chemistry | 12/17/1966 | See Source »

Billy Graham's appearance as a main speaker before the National Council of Churches' triennial assembly in Miami last week threw into one arena the two divergent operational concepts of modern-day Christianity: Graham's concern for the individual soul and the council's stress on involvement with the world. To many, these approaches have seemed opposites; the mere fact of Gra ham's invitation and acceptance was a bit of an eyebrow raiser. But Graham neatly managed to synthesize his own modified views and the council's: he said that social action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Churches: Evangelism & Involvement | 12/16/1966 | See Source »

...Main reason: Yale, with the Wai-pole and Boswell papers in its library, has already become a center for English studies. Mellon's collection, valued at over $35 million and including more than 1,000 oils, 3,000 drawings and 4,000 rare books, would provide the ideal visual complement. To house the new gift, Mellon will pay for a new $12 million building to contain a gallery, libraries, lecture and seminar rooms, to be located across the street from the present Yale Art Gallery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gifts: Old England for New | 12/16/1966 | See Source »

...been the $250,000-a-year chairman of the nation's sixth largest company (1965 sales: $5.5 billion) since 1961. He joined Mobil in 1933 when, fresh out of Harvard, he landed a $19-a-week job in a Brookline, Mass., service station. One of his main achievements has been to help build up Mobil's foreign operations, which ^suffered heavily during World War II, to the point where they now bring in more than half of the company's net income, which reached a record $320 million in 1965. For more than a year, Republican Nickerson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Organizations: A Proprietary Interest | 12/16/1966 | See Source »

Although Monro made it clear that he is willing to offer a resolution, he repeatedly said that he would only do it in the absence of another motion. "If this thing shows up in any other form, I probably won't do it," he declared. His main objective, he said, was to insure some sort of discussion or debate...

Author: By Robert J. Samuelson, | Title: Monro Moves to Assure Faculty Debate on Ranking | 12/16/1966 | See Source »

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