Word: naturales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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A Natural History of New York City, by John Kieran. A naturalist's engaging account of how nature survives in the asphalt jungle.
10. A Natural History of New York City, Kieran (9)
Though economics stands mid-way between two cultures, it is its similarity to the natural sciences that causes the greatest problems. Professional economics shares with the sciences an analytic technique "remote from the common experience of the layman and a language that is principally mathematical," to use the words the...
Another similarity with science is that the study of economics is often cumulative, thereby necessitating an extensive introduction to provide the requisite basic knowledge. These are the same problems with which the Bruner Report was concerned in the teaching of natural sciences in a liberal arts program. That report dealt...
Freshmen tend to lose interest in science during the first year of residence, von Stade also noted in his report. Although nearly 50 per cent of '62 intended to concentrate in the natural sciences last fall, only 34.2 per cent remained in the field by spring. Only 20.8 per cent...