Word: surveyals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York Library, they have never been shown before. The twenty-eight books and many separate pages, rich with color and gold, some as old as the ninth century, contrast vividly with the twenty original drawings from Perugino to Watteau. Yet they combine together in presenting an unusual survey of the art of draughtsmanship...
Obviously, therefore, the solution of substituting a general survey course of all the sciences would completely miss the mark. It would be like suggesting that all who have not been aroused by the "precise caress" of history should be excused from history courses and allowed to read H. G. Wells and study his "kulturgeschichte." There is already enough general and inaccurate "cultural" knowledge in America, and our national fondness for cyclopedias and bibliographies is ample proof of this discouraging tendency. The real error in the editorial, however, is the assumption that a course in the history of science and learning...
Maintaining that "Until we have an adequate survey of our intellectual history, we cannot except the world at large to understand the importance of the scholar's contribution to civilization," President Conant yesterday announced the creation of a new Ph.D. degree in the History of Science and Learning...
...merry members of that paragon of elementary science courses, which includes a survey of practical politics, ethics, current events, and similar attractive features, namely Geology 1, will be treated to a cinema show this evening at 7.30 o'clock...
...twelve hours the ocean was not sighted once beneath the moonlight-flooded clouds. At dawn the Clipper broke through the grey mists overhanging Oahu Island, sped onward in the bright sunlight of a Hawaiian morning, to make a 150-mi. survey of landing areas. Then, within one minute of its schedule, it landed smoothly in Pearl Harbor, having clipped seven hours from the previous record made by six Navy planes in mass flight in January 1934. Nearly eight years before, two Army flyers (Maitland & Hegenberger) had made the first crossing in a landplane in 25 hr. 50 min. The Clipper...