Word: surveys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...goals of liberal education, cited in the first report were strikingly similar to those adopted six years later by the Harvard Committee on the Objectives of General Education in a Free Society. Important aims of a liberal college, according to the Council survey, were those of freeing the mind from ignorance and prejudice and giving the student an "opportunity to develop considered standards of value." To do this the College must give the student some idea of our "common tradition of human experience" and also attempt to provide him with the "intellectual tools with which he can confront new problems...
...Fine Arts Department offers a wide choice of survey and period courses in the history of art. Aided by slides and the Fogg Museum collection, undergraduates can study stone age frescoes or surrealist paintings, can peer into pyramids or glass houses. But in creative painting, the Department offers no adequate instruction...
...talking about economy and opposing the folks back home were two different things. With a new amendment directing the VA to survey the abandoned Army & Navy hospitals and use them if it could, the bill was shouted through without a record vote and sent on to the Senate. No one could tell for sure how any member had voted; back home each could talk however it suited the occasion, out of either corner of his mouth...
Most young people in the U.S. have a passive feeling about religion, and are confused about its place in their own lives. This is the conclusion drawn from a survey sponsored by the Young Men's Christian Association and reported this week by Social Scientist Murray G. Ross in Religious Beliefs of Youth (Association Press...
...accurate figures for the College have been available since the war, but a survey of the years 1929 to 1941, conducted by Dean Leighton's office, shows that student attrition is decreasing steadily...