Word: surveyals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...result shows unusual foresight into the problems confronting the average student. The Committee has recognized that what is often most needed is stress on a definite phase of elementary training, such as reading, grammar or composition. Until these fundamentals are instilled in a student, the great value of a survey course is lost. With this in mind, it has rearranged the "groundwork" courses so that every branch of this training will be given in the future, thus permitting men to develop those fields in which they feel weak and to bring their elementary training up to a common level...
...this way the survey course such as French 6 will come to mean even more than it does at present, for without the foundation of a general understanding, the cultural cream gathered in such a course will soon dribble off and be relegated to some mental attic along with other musty educational relics of bygone days. An interesting new innovation is the French and German F, described in the report as an "introduction with slides and phonograph records to the respective countries". At first smacking somewhat of the Travelogue, these two newcomers give promise of being among the most entertaining...
...Victor Weybright wrote in the February Survey Graphic: "That 200,000 newcomers to the Federal service have been exempt from civil service in the past three years has alarmed critics of bureaucracy...
Victorian Jewel Box. Meanwhile his 500,000,000 subjects can ruffle the pages of English history and survey their previous King Edwards. Too late came Edward VII to be included in that magnificent and useful doggerel The History of England in Rhyme which so many sturdy Victorians still know by heart. In some 400 lines of galloping and definitely learnable verse it equips an Englishman with the history of his country from "great Julius Caesar, B. C. fifty-five." Gems from this Victorian jewel box apropos the long dead Edwards...
...Arboretum, in the annual report of the institution, issued today. During the past two winters twenty-seven kinds of plants once thought hardy enough for the New England climate were killed outright, 248 varieties were killed to the ground, and 226 other kinds were severely damaged, according to a survey made by the Arboretum staff...