Word: surveyers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Council reaffirmed its desire for a food survey last week after the results of a college-wide poll had shown a four to one majority in favor of a survey...
...introduction to concentration in History. But a much changed Social Sciences 1 will most nearly follow the approach of History 1 when Professor Taylor joins Professor Brinton, to give the first half. Instead of the "important periods" approach, followed in the last two years, the course will become a survey, emphasizing cultural aspects and including source book reading and research papers. Such irksome details as map-making will be eliminated. In other words, the new course will proceed in a different, and, it is hoped, more palatable way, while still providing an historical framework for further study in European civilization...
Three other investigators made a preliminary report on a scientific survey, the first of its kind, in which they looked for some connection between smoking and lung cancer. Chief Surgeon Evarts Graham and Medical Student Ernest L. Wynder of Washington University's School of Medicine, and Manhattan's Dr. Herbert C. Maier, checked 200 male patients who had lung cancer, and a group of 500 without cancer. Of the 200 with cancer, 95.5% had smoked at least one package of cigarettes a day for at least 20 years; only one was a nonsmoker, and all but 3% inhaled...
...slow. Said Harry A. Kleugel, head of the Hawaiian Board of Hospitals: "We should be wary of jumping into something new when the present operation is showing results." Five bills were introduced after the Governor's message, but none was for immediate action. One asked for a survey of leprosy in Hawaii and a report to the next session; another asked for more research. The others would make life easier at Kalaupapa by such details as allowing photographs to be sent home (now only scientific pictures...
General Education seems to be the most logical place for a Romance literature survey. G.E. is already offering a study in the Renaissance next year, and could proceed to a more general course in the future along the lines of either "great period" courses or simple historical surveys. The form of the study can be a subject for the sort of intelligent experimentation that General Education has conducted since its beginning. But whatever the exact pattern, non-specialists should have the chance to study Romance literatures...