Word: techs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cautiously, Tech proceeded to build a small faculty of Economics. The Institute of Technology did not attempt to become a university because such a change would have been too costly and inconsistent with its basic purposes. When it had a few grade A economists, Tech began to seek for some sociologists, anthropologists, historians, and representatives of all other a academic disciplines...
...each case, the specialists in non-scientific fields were attracted to Tech by the prospect of investigating their own specialties' relevance with science. For instance, expertise in the psychology of communication would work with electrical engineers while social historians would study towns such as Lowell with the aid of technical experts...
...Each year," John E. Buchard, Tech's Dean of Humanities, says, "we make more progress toward the eventual marriage of the scientific and non-scientific disciplines. Meanwhile our non-science men could teach the undergraduate engineering students...
Burchard then altered the Tech humanities systems to one prescribed course per year for three years and a choice of a great book, history of thought, music, or international relations course. This curriculum was to take one quarter of a Tech undergraduate's time. Actually it required only one-sixth...
...writing of several papers into G.E. course freshmen took. Only if the quality of these papers was startlingly bad would undergraduates have to take a formal composition course as an extra subject. With this system, Burchard was able to squeeze two more terms of humanities content into the Tech undergraduate's curriculum...