Word: segments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...incompetence; they rebel at the increasing specialization some departments require and in general would like an academic framework which leaves more time for general reading or study. The CEP proposals have tended to produce a polarization of undergraduates into honors and non-honors groups which unfortunately lumps this middle segment of students with scholastic reprobates. It is heartening to see that in the past two weeks plans have been advanced which together contain all the elements needed for a non-honors program which satisfies the needs of the serious student...
...organization of a strong non-honors program transcending departmental lines is a necessary complement to the CEP's honors program, Such a non-honors plan would be a major step in encouraging a large segment of undergraduates to seek the benefits of a tutorial program in addition to eliminating the increasingly sharp bifurcation of honors and non-honors students...
Benjamin Rowland, Jr., professor of Fine Arts, questioned the value of having a non-concentrator studying intensely some small segment of science. "This seems to defeat the whole purpose of a General Education course, he said...
Your caves of Rosenburg Hill story [Jan. 5] brought back many memories, as I was one of the first to be taken into Belgium's ancient quarried hillside honeycomb in 1944. The townspeople of nearby Maastricht had used one small segment of these quarries as an air raid shelter capable of housing 70,000 people easily. The Queen Wilhelmina art collection, including Rembrandt's The Nightwatch, was stored away in them with full cooperation from the Germans, who never realized that running right alongside the air raid shelter and art sanctuary was a path to freedom for Allied...
Corker. In a Butte, Mont, suburb, where an influential segment of the population is of Irish descent, there is a shiny new, Kelly green fire engine...