Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...George A. Buttrick, chairman of the eight-man committee, has approved the merger subject to approval by two-thirds of the PBH members, the Radcliffe Student Government Association, and by a special Radcliffe Administrative review board...
...Advance Research Projects Agency will be headed by a civilian, still to be selected. It will be an actual operating military agency, to put into effect some of the broad guidelines suggested by the newly established office of special assistant to the President for science and technology, headed by James R. Killian...
Examination of sources should lead to the more logical grouping of concentrators by fields instead of solely by Houses, under a tutor whose interests are the same as his tutees. A concentrator whose special emphasis lies in American history, for example, might study original writings of the late nineteenth century in order to determine for himself the causes of Progressivism. This would at the same time give him a more integral view of historical movements, which the discrete quality of his courses--economic, political, social or intellectual history--often precludes...
...latter part of the junior year, the concentrator would be able to understand philosophical formulations in terms of his special fields. The tutor and the student would be able to go more deeply into philosophy once they had an agreed basis of fact; and a division by fields would insure that the tutor is teaching a subject with which he is familiar and in which the student is interested...
Until Friday the committee had been an adjunct of the Office of Defense Mobilization. The transfer to the Executive Office is designed to bring about a closer relationship between the Committee and James R. Killian, Jr., the President's special assistant for science and technology...