Word: surveys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...annual survey of "the fertility of college graduates in the United States," the Population Reference Bureau, Inc. announced that alumni and alumnae are getting more reproductive every year. The men of '45 now average 1.73 children, which is a 70% jump over the men of '36 when they were ten years out. The women have 1.43 children, a gain of 51% over their counterparts of '36. Most prolific campus, as usual: Utah's Brigham Young University...
Behind the U.S. engineering shortage lie a number of causes. One of the biggest is a survey made by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in 1949. It found that the U.S., then graduating close to 50,000 engineers a year, had too many. At the time, this was true enough. But shortly afterward, the Korean war and the boom in electronics and guided missiles transformed the picture. The industrial ratio of engineers to factory workers, which stood at one to 100 during the late '20s, has increased to one to 60, and is rising with every new automated process...
...General Education aspect of Music, then, has been aimed primarily at the non-concentrator. The prime example of this is Music 1, felt by many students to be too sketchy for concentrators, who are encouraged to take Music 123 and 124, a two-year survey. Generally, however, the department does not make such a clear distinction between courses offered for concentrators and non-concentrators. The unexpected popularity among non-concentrators of "The Art of Bach" has created something of a problem for the department in planning the course that will have appeal to concentrators and non-concentrators alike...
...Music History and Literature is unlike those of the other Humanities in that it emphasizes depth rather than breadth. To Thompson, whom Dr. Davison has called "first among our native composers of choral music," education should be a deepening rather than a broadening experiences. If you take a survey course in the History of Music and then a survey course in, say, the Baroque period, are you necessarily more educated...
...Depth is achieved by a variety of types of courses, such as a survey, an analysis of musical form, a course in opers, a course in chamber music, or some other type. To take a course in Beethoven's string quartets and than another in Haydn's is not deepening one's intellectual experience...