Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While similar courses might be worked out in the natural science area, here the whole area might be more profitably changed into a semester divided system, in which students could study certain options depending upon the amount of science or math they had mastered. Natural sciences pose special problems, but improvements here are certainly needed...
Ultimately, the story revolves around Manolios' effect on other people. With such a subject, the best description is indirect. Beside the dramatic use of crowds, Dassin traces individual characters. Although the entire cast performs laudably, the roles of Mary Magdelan and that of the Turkish Agha deserve special note, both for themselves and for the skill with which they are filled. The former experiences fully and convincingly the joys of virtue and of vice; the latter commits himself to detachment. Were his portrait drawn with less sympathy, a criticism of the Turk's detachment might be the biggest single answer...
...impressive reasons the General Education program has consistently refused to systematize its concessions to the well-prepared or the student with special plans. With the exception of the long-standing Nat Sci exemption, the requirement has no provision for unusual cases. No doubt the reasons are always good, but the cumulative effect is inevitably disquieting. The isolation and stasis which seems to be infiltrating the program are discouraging signs; nothing could be further from either liberal or General Education than a compartmentalized offering of three courses which refuses to integrate itself with the rest of the College...
Maass has been a member of the Faculty since 1948, and director of the Harvard Water Resources Program since 1955. He also heads a special Faculty committee which is studying the future of geography courses at the University...
Gene Kelly Pontiac Special (CBS, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Gene Kelly running and dancing wild to a background of a new poem by Carl Sandburg, a jazz jam session by Arranger Nelson Riddle, a ballet score by Peter Gunn Composer Henry Mancini...