Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...suddenly a mood of benevolence came over him. Examinations were coming along, for Student Council members as well as for other people... and that gave him the ideas of quoting from William James on the subject of examinations...
Yale and Rutgers have set up new geography departments, University geographers report yesterday. The action of the two colleges contrasts with Harvard's elimination of the subject as a field of concentration and the cutting down of the Geography faculty last year...
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...nature of a speech course demands small sections; the Department's allocations for speech limit the course to 75. As many students had to be turned away from the course last fall as were allowed to take it. Even if University officials do not consider speech an important subject, they must at least recognize its basic value to the extent of giving all those who want this instruction the chance to get it. This means an extension in the facilities of English...
...problem that must be faced in a subject such as speech is that, like English composition, those who need it most usually do not take it on their own initiative. It would be well to consider instituting a test for incoming freshmen not only to discover speech defects and any marked difficulties in expression, but to aim for a basic level of self-expression...