Word: speciale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Never Rains ... In Bogotá, Colombia, after holding special services to pray for rain, citizens had to call on the army and Red Cross to rescue 50 families made homeless by flood waters...
...weekly or biweekly tutorial sessions are designed to round out and integrate the student's mastery of history in general and of his special field in particular. Outside reading is assigned and a certain number of special tutorial essays are due each term. The aims of the reading and essays are not only to increase factual knowledge but more particularlly to develop facility in oral and written expression and the habits of independent investigation and thought...
...concentrators must for more intensive work select a special field from a group of 16 (sixteen). Honors candidates, who normally survive seven or eight courses in the field, take at the end of the junior year a two-part exam consisting of three questions to be chosen from four major chronological and geographical areas. True to its tradition, the department sees to it that one of the three questions must be on a pre-1700 topic. Men not attaining a satisfactory grade on this exam are dropped from the honors program...
...second part of the exam consists of one essay chosen from several options and is designed to test more particularly the student's comprehensive knowledge of history and his ability to think critically on historical generalizations. At the end of the senior year, honors men also have a special field exam and, at the option of the Examiners, an oral exam...
...same exam requirements hold for non-honors candidates, except that both the departmental and the special field tests come at the end of the senior year. An additional oral exam may also be required. Honors theses are submitted prior to the special field exams. Tutorial for credit for three half-courses is offered to juniors and seniors who are honors candidates. A knowledge of French or German is advisable for honors...