Word: surveyals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...calls for the reduction or abolition of freedom of electives--the ideal of Lowell and Conant--in the first two years of college. The Council committee feels, however, that this is bitter but necessary--the price of a truly liberal education. Its "area" courses are not to be superficial survey courses; they will aim to be penetrating, comprehensive courses, possessing all the thoroughness and vigor or History I, and backed up by essay-type examinations instead of the true-false exercises necessary in an overly broad "civilization" course...
...followed this with graduate work at Wisconsin and University of Chicago, where he coached football under Amos Alonzo Stagg. A Ph.D. thesis on Illinois school finance in 1924 started Floyd Reeves toward national renown. He made 400 surveys of school systems and colleges, became the No. 1 U. S. expert on college administration, directed a survey of University of Chicago, where he is still a professor, that shaped the Hutchins plan...
...country" type; among next year's there will be three. Finally, the year at Harvard has not only given the men a welcome and probably--in spite of all that is said--profitable vacation, but also has enabled them to supplement their practical experience with an objective, critical survey of all newspaper work--thereby improving their reporting and editing for the future...
...Manhattan). In 1934 it attacked Housing with such vigorous exhibits as an actual tenement room, complete with cockroaches. The Museum's architectural notes and shows have in general packed more sting than any others, and the one positively new section of last week's exhibition was a survey of modern housing in Europe and the U. S. down to the last projects of the $800,000,000 U. S. Housing Authority. Cracked Curator John McAndrew, with the pictures on the wall to back...
...such fugitives from history, learned, liberal Historians Charles and Mary Beard this week provided America in Midpassage (the third volume of their Rise of American Civilization), a condensed but still bulky survey of the last ten years. Into its 977 pages the Beards with evident relish have packed the joltiest jars of the great skid from the boom of 1928 to the gloom of 1939, suggest some new rules for safer driving if the car of state ever climbs back on the road...