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...time the other lower-level Nat. Sci. courses might also adopt Nat. Sci. 2's lab idea, according to William H. McCord, newly appointed assistant secretary of the Committee on General Education...
...With newer and more efficient machines, the industry expects the boom to go on and on. Replacement sales will be enormous. On tractors alone, replacements average 10% of the total each year, by 1960 will hit 450,000 units annually. Says Oliver's President A. King McCord: "We believe that 1960 could be the biggest year of this industry just on replacement alone." Beyond that, the world's food requirements are growing with the fast increase in population. Says Ford Vice President Irving A. Duffy, chief of the farm division: "By 1975, our population is expected to reach...
...McCord emphasizes Radcliffe's growth as an institution with separate traditions of its own. It was known as the Annex from its beginnings in 1879, and adopted its present name in 1882 when an agreement giving it formal status was signed with Harvard. Radcliffe, the maiden name of an early donor to the University, was suggested as appropriate "because of a certain picturesqueness...
...whimsicality of his reaction to certain unique aspects of Radcliffe give the book an additional charm. McCord's appreciation of the unusual breadth of selection of courses, for instance...
...Acre for Educations is, inevitably, less interesting when McCord records the material aspects of Radcliffe's expansion rather than historical tidbits. He might well have given more space to its early fight for recognition and less to outlining the General Education program and plans for the Graduate Quadrangle. But his book will certainly be worthwhile reading not only for Radcliffe students and alumnae, but because of McCord's generally excellent choice of material, for others as well. CARLOTA G. SHIPMAN