Word: offerings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wide range of concentration requirements and specialize to an extreme degree. He can dispatch his general courses in a single year, spend the rest of his college tenure concentrating in a single field, and graduate textbook technician, without the large store of general knowledge the system hopes to offer. If this man were a candidate for honors, he would be inclined to place a heavy value on concentration under the existing system. Charged with extensive preparation for General Examinations, the undergraduate often feels bound to take the maximum number of courses in his field. A brilliant man can thus unconsciously...
...Astronomy of the Solar System, Elementary Anthropology, or the Tacties and Techniques of Field Artillery with little idea that distribution was designed to dispense a knowledge of the important principles in modern society. In the area of Social Sciences, many students again pick large lecture courses that offer an introduction to the field and not an evaluation of its influence on the world...
Eager to push forward with a plan for dividing Palestine, the United Nations has yet to offer an acceptable method of insuring the partition's success. The authors of the plan place their hope for peaceful government during the early life of the nascent states in an armed, locally recruited militia. In the event of an Arab uprising, any native constabulary would prove hopelessly inadequate to keep peace among the warring factions. With this in view, the U.N. cannot neglect the possibility of a concerted Arabian effort to crush the new Jewish state. By failing to provide an effective security...
...came the offer from McGill University. Douglas accepted. He found his grandfather still remembered at McGill, where Douglas Hall was named after him. Now Lew is remembered, too, as a man who balanced the university budget by such stringent economies as yanking out phones and urging his aides to scribble memos on the back of old envelopes...
...tales, authority on nautical lore; of coronary thrombosis; in Belfast, Me. Colcord created a long-remembered sensation in 1929 when he publicly debunked-Joan Lowell's best-selling "autobiographical" sea story, Cradle of the Deep, as so much romantic fiction, caused the Book-of-the-Month Club to offer refunds...