Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dean Williams foresees the "Littauer Center growing into a real center for men in the public service whether federal, state, or local, and for men within the social sciences, whatever their particular specialty, who are engaged upon research in broad public problems...
...Harvard's new offspring has chosen a plan of attack which seems on the whole to be highly practicable. Students will not specialize in technical training for the purpose of stepping into one particular government job fully prepared, but will cover the broader and more fundamental fields which will prepare them in somewhat the same fashion as the Studies for English Civil Service exams...
...business. Charges of dealer coercion were presently brought against the "big four" in Milwaukee, but the case fizzled when the judge discovered the Department of Justice trying to arrange a consent decree on the side (TIME, Nov. 22, et seq.). Since then this particular phase of the tripartite dealer investigation has lain dormant. Last week, however, the other two simultaneously came to a climax in Detroit at the annual convention...
...guide for determining admissions Harvard has set a variety of standards which the student must attain--the particular standard depending in any one case upon the college from which the candidate applies. Thus there is one college from which almost any graduate, no matter the mark, will be accepted. In other colleges almost an A plus average is required. Dean Landis declined to permit the CRIMSON to have access to these standards...
...which the trend of the times is placing on new legal techniques, and to permit more intensive specialization in the final year, it has been found desirable to compress into the first two years much of the material traditionally studied over the whole course. The faculty committee, and in particular Dean Landis, are to be congratulated for resolutely resisting the temptation to initiate a four year course. Such a change would probably have enabled the faculty haphazardly to pile more work on the student rather than spurring professors to make better use of the student's time by more careful...