Word: survey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...apprenticed to a wood engraver, very soon won a modest reputation for himself as a painter of mildly romantic landscapes. He studied in Europe, became heavily influenced by Turner's explosive sunsets, but Moran did not become a national figure until 1871, when the U. S. Geological Survey organized an expedition to explore the valley of the Yellowstone, asked Thomas Moran to go along as official artist...
After the meeting, according to the "Traveller," President Baker declared that it was "all right with me if he wishes Dean Holmes to make a survey of the college...
First Dean Holmes was named to fill President-emeritus Lowell's position as chairman of the Advisory Committee to the State Unemployment Compensation Commission, and then later in the day, Governor Hurley announced that he would appoint Dean Holmes head of a group to make a thorough survey of Massachusetts State College at Amherst...
According to the Governor, the purpose of the survey will be to discover whether the budget of the State Colege can be pared. James G. Reardon, commissioner of education, backed his Governor in attacking Hugh P. Baker, president of the State College...
...student of History receives no such gradual initiation into his field. A concentrator in medieval history may graduate from the broad survey of History 1 into a small sector like History 22, the History of France to 1461. Medieval History needs a middle course on Continental Europe patterned after Professor Langer's course. It should also embrace Germany--now untouched by the specialized courses on Medieval Europe. The courses in Early Modern History are also in urgent need or revision. Only a person gifted with indefatigble energy and a sense of humour could get a good knowledge of this field...