Word: overlapping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Neither institution will drop any courses to avoid overlap with those offered at the other, both presidents emphasized. They predicted that the program would serve to strengthen weaker areas of their schools when exposed to stronger departments at the other...
...rats to develop first diabetes and then artery disease-a condition remarkably like progressive human diabetes. With animals kept at what Dr. Schroeder considers a normal chromium level, there was virtually no diabetes or atherosclerosis. "Specialists in diabetes and in atherosclerosis," he said, "are beginning to see their disciplines overlap...
This proposal would reduce the importance and autonomy of individual departments, and many will resent it. But the advantages of interdepartmental teaching are substantial. By imposing control from the top, it would permit the faculty to survey the entire program and thereby prevent the overlap which now plagues the curriculum. The report of the Subcommittee on Curriculum Planning should be studied carefully by the faculty and improved where necessary But it will be unfortunate if the debate stretches out for more than a year, making it impossible to institute the system next September...
...same time and thus potentially available to all classes, divides the academic year into three 15-week of vacation. The middle 15-week of vacation. The middle 15-week period of each year would constitute the elective period. A variant of this arrangement would permit this trimester system to overlap with the second semester at other graduate schools so that medical students could seek electives in the university and electives at the medical school would be available to other students. By making the three periods 20, 15 and 10 weeks, respectively, this can be accomplished...
...lumped under the name "high blood pressure" seem a world apart from the disease known as diabetes. The startling truth, reported by the University of Michigan's Dr. Jerome W. Conn to the New England Diabetes Association, is that there may be an immense and confusing area of overlap. As a result, Dr. Conn suggested, there may be more than 1,000,000 Americans who have been diagnosed as diabetics but are actually suffering from an adrenal-gland disorder requiring surgery...