Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the new plan, every undergraduate starting with the Class of 1955 must take at least three GE courses, one each in Humanities, Natural, and Social Sciences before the end of his sophomore year. In addition, three more distribution courses will be required. These may be chosen from second group GE courses, or any course offered by the various Departments. The Committee on General Education will, however, publish a list of "recommended courses" for advanced distribution...
...first proposals for GE contained in "General Education in a Free Society," suggested that in the areas of humanities and social sciences, one particular course would be required of all students. In that program, only one distribution course would have been permitted in the area of concentration...
Beginning next year, any one of the elementary Social Sciences courses will serve as an introduction to concentration in History. But a much changed Social Sciences 1 will most nearly follow the approach of History 1 when Professor Taylor joins Professor Brinton, to give the first half. Instead of the "important periods" approach, followed in the last two years, the course will become a survey, emphasizing cultural aspects and including source book reading and research papers. Such irksome details as map-making will be eliminated. In other words, the new course will proceed in a different, and, it is hoped...
...Pensions and social security...
Squirrels & Scabs. The night before, the government had rounded up workers from the mint and other government printing offices, rushed them down to the plants of the pro-government El Mundo and La Fronda. While police guarded the buildings with machine guns, and Evita Perón's Social Aid Foundation (for the destitute and aged) rushed in bedding and food, the esquiroles (squirrels, i.e., strikebreakers) kept the newspaper blackout from being complete. But the single editions they turned out contained little more than cheesecake pictures and ready-made material including an editorial entitled "Three Years of Legality." Neither...