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Word: offerings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Committee proposals are the result of nearly seven years of study and experiments; they offer the College a program far broader and more liberal than any other comparable system now in operation. There should be no hesitation on his matter either in the Faculty or among students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Modest Proposal | 2/8/1949 | See Source »

...Harvard College as recommended in Sections 4, 5 and 6 of Chapter V of the Report of the University Committee on the Objectives of a General Education in a Free Society." The vote requested the President to appoint a Committee on General Education and authorized that Committee to offer courses in General Education on an experimental basis beginning in September 1946. The vote also imposed upon the Committee responsibility for recommending to the Faculty such changes as may be "necessary to effect the transition to the vote, and after extended discussions of the problems involved in effecting the transition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Text of the GE Proposals | 2/8/1949 | See Source »

...Humanities, Social Scinces, and Natural Sciences). These elementary courses are to be taken during the freshman and sophomore years. Four such courses may be counted by any student who elects elementary courses in both Physical Sciences and Biological Science. It is understood that the Committee on General Education will offer at least two alternative elementary courses in the Humanities, Social Sciences, Physical Sciences, and Biological Science...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Text of the GE Proposals | 2/8/1949 | See Source »

Again I am startled and puzzled by the attitude some citizens of the artistic world have taken toward a great musical conductor, who cannot give us any good tips on how to improve our war machine, but to my mind has something much more worth while to offer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 7, 1949 | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

...called a lady Oakland evangelist "sexy-looking," her congregation picketed the Examiner. A great gagster, Freddie rented a beard and paraded with the pickets. He also crusaded against Elmer ("Bones") Remmer, owner of San Francisco's three biggest gambling houses, and drove Bones out of business. (When offered a $500-a-month bribe to lay off, he hid a microphone and got a transcript of the offer; it made juicy reading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Exit Blushing | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

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