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Word: surveys (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...comprehensive survey of religion at Harvard appears on pages four, five, and six of today's issue...

Author: By William W. Bartley iii, | Title: New Unitarian House Will Be Started Here As Part of Divinity School Expansion Drive; Pusey Interviews Roberts in New York City | 4/17/1954 | See Source »

...indeed all of British theatre, gave this year's Theodore Spencer lecture. Of the less than 80 people huddled together to hear him, surprisingly few were those familiar faces who have been clamoring so loudly for the new theatre. A vigilant Corporation member could well survey the bleak New Lecture Hall and question whether the demands have been as sincere as they have been frequent. If the dramatic groups are going to get their theatre, they had best start playing the angles. These gentlemen and ladies could do more for their cause by being less artsy and more crafty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Lonely Crowd | 4/15/1954 | See Source »

...frequently they are soon forgotten. Except where secondary school knowledge is required, science instruction in Gen. Ed. should sacrifice extensive coverage to gain depth. More can be learned through intensive consideration of a few cases, examined in the manner in which the original discoveries were made, than in a "survey" course in a field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Natural Sciences: Fact vs. Fancy | 4/14/1954 | See Source »

...After 1918 the trend was reversed. More and more the emphasis . . . was placed on the contemporary scene . . . Since the second world war, it has become the fashion in survey courses to begin at about 1500 A.D. if the institution is conservative, and 1918 if it is not, with a quick flashback to 1917 in order to include the Bolshevik revolution ... If this trend is carried to its logical conclusion we shall indeed not have history in the curriculum, but only social studies which, with luck, will be contemporary civilization, and at worst, predictions of things to come based on statistics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Rootless | 4/12/1954 | See Source »

...Class of 1952 will serve as the subject of a comprehensive vocational survey conducted by the Office of Student Placement, Louis L. Newby, Jr., assistant director of Student Placement, disclosed yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Class of 1952 to Serve as Subject Of Comprehensive Vocational Polls | 4/2/1954 | See Source »

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