Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Windbags at Work In the week when the U.S. Senate was struggling passionately with itself over whether to provide aid to Communist satellites (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Nikita Khrushchev unexpectedly flew into Sofia to address the Bulgarian Party Congress on the same subject...
...many a World War II G.I. can testify, Western New Guinea is an unappetizing piece of real estate-a land of tropical swamps, unexplored mountains and predominantly Stone Age inhabitants. Yet for more than seven years, possession of this forbidding backwater has been the subject of a bitter quarrel between The Netherlands and Indonesia...
With homosexuality in Britain a matter of government concern and wide-open public discussion (TIME, Dec. 16). the once-taboo subject got a whirl in last week's British Medical Journal. First difficulty, reported a three-man research team which had worked at Bristol Mental Hospitals, is to find out just what a homosexual is. So the Bristol psychiatrists went to nearby prisons, got 64 volunteer subjects, aged 20 to 61, doing time for unnatural acts. The researchers exploded a lot of widespread fallacies: CJ Even among prison cases, homosexuality is no all-or-nothing quality. Only nine...
...must also amass at least 18 "credits" during his four years. One full credit is granted for each year of a subject whether solid or special. As long as a student fulfills the minimum academic requirements, he can earn the rest of his credits in a variety of ways...
...many years, the only instructor at the small College was the President, who taught all four classes. A few tutors were hired as enrollment increased, and the medieval tradition, that the proper teacher for undergraduates should be a recent graduate, was continued. The tutors not only taught every subject the College offered, but were also responsible for the students' intellectual, moral, and spiritual development...