Word: syllabus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chief of U.N.'s language division, Mathieu heads 49 interpreters and translators in the U.S. and Europe. To help them, he has propounded four ground rules which might well serve as a simple syllabus of pentecostal understanding in a Tower-of-Babel...
Females, for the first time, have penetrated the section meetings of History 1 in the fair forms of Miss Edith Pratt and Miss Lenore O'Boyle, who between them will instruct three Harvard classes. The History 1 Syllabus now covers events from the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire to the Decline and Fall of the Dominant Male...
...severe manpower shortage; it must plan to train as much officer material as possible in the shortest feasible time. Three months' basic training will be obligatory under its program: once at college, military students will follow a prescribed curriculum. Three courses will probably be technical, the fourth a syllabus of what the Army regards as valuable in a liberal education, probably prescribing the outlines if not the attitudes which professors must follow. With soldiers apparently quartered in barracks, under military discipline, often with "no time" for extra-curricular activities, the only thing collegiate about the plan as it stands will...
...shuffled through the leaves which lay strewn on the path in the Yard, he noted a High School freshman walking towards him. There was nothing extraordinary about that, as it was nearing 2:30 o'clock, but then he noted a History One syllabus under the youth's arm. "These Freshmen are getting younger and younger each term," he exclaimed. The incident quickly slipped from his mind as he headed towards Mass. Hall, and then turned in between Hollis and Harvard. As he passed the doorway of Holden Chapel, with its white and black sign proclaiming the transformation...
...said: "Flight training in gliders or sailplanes as a preliminary step in power-plane training is of doubtful value, and it is believed the cost is not commensurate with the results obtained." A Navy spokesman announced: "It was definitely determined that the inclusion of glider training in the flight syllabus was not worthwhile...