Word: survey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Raushenbush, in advocating the investigation, cited the success of a similar survey by Columbia's Student Council, and emphasized that the student body should be kept informed, especially "at present (when) in a view of the apparent disinflation, another increase will arouse vigorous complaint...
McMurtrie said that a "whirlwind survey ... would leave us open to foolish and dangerous error," and insisted that advocacy of such an investigation would imply inefficiency or lack of interest in students on the part of the Administration...
...Romance Languages Department, however, is significantly different from other language departments. The Department is in charge of no less than four languages. A survey on the order of English 1, therefore, would be quite difficult to whip up since it would have to reject more material than other survey courses and be a good deal more general. That is partly why the Romance Languages and Literatures Department is leery of handling such a survey. The course would have a distinctly limited value for the concentrator...
...Instead of a fifth history course, a related course in another field. Thus, the specializer in French history can take French 20, a survey of French literature...
Taylor will give the first half of the new course. The present instructor of Social Sciences 1, C. Crane Brinton '19, professor of History, will each the second half of the revamped survey of European history...