Word: specializations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Humanities course was to be entitled "Great Texts of Literature." "The aim of such a course would be the fullest understanding of the work read rather than of men or periods represented, craftsmanship evinced, historic or literary development shown, or anything else. These other matters ... should be left for special education." It is difficult to contend that recent additions to the Humanities curriculum follow this outline...
...addition to these two specific difficulties, there is growing resentment of the special status enjoyed by History. As long as the Redbook remained the guiding principle of the program, the dominance of one field could be explained. But with the Redbook virtually a dead letter, this preferred status is an additional irritant. The initial ranks of those who did not support the Redbook have been swelled by those who think that the Redbook is simply being used as an excuse for perpetuating the dominance of the History department...
...rumors that a major study is in prospect, one comparable in scope to the Redbook. If such a report is written, and approved by the Faculty, perhaps General Education will experience a rebirth of interest and participation. But the present temper of the Faculty is so disposed toward special study and specialization that it is doubtful that a new report which created a program as broad and diffuse as General Education would be approved...
Alexander's "special kind of bank" has attracted the biggest lights of the financial firmament. More than half of the top 500 U.S. corporations-including such giants as General Electric, General Motors and Standard Oil (New Jersey)-bank with Morgan Guaranty. The U.S. Government leans on Morgan Guaranty as one of the principal dealers in government securities. The bank annually sends out more than 9,200,000 dividend checks worth $1 billion for corporations, takes care of investing $6.5 billion in trust funds. Morgan Guaranty runs pension funds for such big corporations as Johns-Manville, Kennecott Copper, Philip Morris...
...Story. The great names of American crime cross the screen like targets in a shooting gallery. Despite the soul-searing domestic difficulties of Special Agent Jimmy Stewart, the picture's documentary air is always absorbing...