Word: survey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...complete reorganization of the elementary courses, and the introduction of new middle-group courses, which goes into effect next year, should nullify some of the objections that concentrators have voiced in the past. The move to present a better comprehensive view of German culture takes the shape of a survey course in Literature, German 1, and new courses by Professor Nolte and Dr. Potter in the eighteenth century and the cultural background of Renaissance and Reformation. This may help to eradicate the common complaint of concentrators that they get bogged down in laborious translation work...
Data for his findings were provided by measurements of the Harvard Survey of 14,000 criminals, 3,000 Massachusetts and Tennessee law-abiding civilians, and 6,000 citizens at the Chicago's World's Fair. All nine of the commonly accepted racial groups were found in similar proportions among all the population studied...
...until the present the work done in the field has not been considered as a unified whole, large gaps being left in the material covered. Next year, however, Music 3 (history) and Music 4 (appreciation) are being combined into Music 1 to be called "a general survey course" and will include both of the above fields. Requirements will be much stiffer here than in the past, the Department being auxicus to rid itself of the onus of giving the last "snap" course in the College. This should lay a complete foundation for an adequate coverage of the field...
...made the time. Charlie Whiteside has let no one in on the comparative records in many cases because he felt that the actual times were misleading as a basis for judging the crew's progress, either as regards other college eights, or as a week by week survey of the crew itself; conditions of wind, water, and tide being sufficiently different to throw out of line the elapsed time as recorded by the stop watch...
Maine went Democratic. So did the nation. Secretary Ickes put Engineer Cooper on a special survey committee. Its report was favorable. Before long Army Engineers found themselves standing on the brink of Cobscook Bay with $10,000,000 of relief cash in prospect and White House orders to start Quoddy Dam. To save international complications the project had been cut in half and confined entirely to U. S. waters. Even so. its estimated cost was $36,000,000. Five dams had to be built between the islands enclosing Cobscook Bay. In places the water was 150 ft. deep...