Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This year the University is offering for the first time two special courses in physics and biology designed for students interested in teaching science. The courses are being given by the Academic Year Institute for High School Teachers of Science and Mathematics...
Each of the 50 Institute Fellows in the University follows a program planned in conjunction with a Faculty committee of scientists. The members of this committee also serve as special advisers...
Moreover, dependence on large-scale donations would make the Council susceptible, in a way in which other organizations are not, to influence from groups with special interests, who might want to see certain things done or prevented within the College. Should the Council be forced to seek outside support, they should be careful to avoid any sort of external influence...
Diana's worship at Vraona had a special feature: little girls dressed as bears. According to an ancient legend, a couple of Athenian juvenile delinquents killed Diana's holy bear, and she sent a pestilence to punish their city. To square themselves with Diana, the citizens agreed to send five-to ten-year-old girls of noble families to Vraona to substitute for the murdered bear. No one seems to know whether these noble nymphets took part in the orgies mentioned by Aristophanes. Dr. Papadimitriou doubts it. They appear to have been housed, and perhaps chaperoned...
College (Princeton) releases Alfred from family pathos and small-town parochialism. O'Hara, a noncollege man who lives in Princeton, lavishes a special nostalgia on the college scene where an Ivy Leaguer becomes a species of feudal knight surrounded by noncollege varlets...