Word: tracts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...complex as the system it directs. Even after two decades of intensive study only about one-third of the genes have been mapped along the length of DNA in the chromosome of so elementary a creature as the digestive-tract bacterium Escherichia coli. The reason: just a teaspoon of E. coli DNA has information capacity approximately equal to that of a computer with a storage capacity of about...
Since your tract-society-one can hardly call your publication a newspaper-has seen fit to publish the Kissinger letter composed by Professors Kelman and Mendelsohn and doubtless subscribed to by many of the worthy names of the Brave New Harvard I am sending, for your information, a copy of the response that I have just transmitted to the letter's authors. Dear...
...student-Faculty committee, chaired by Philip R. Stewart, assistant professor of French, devised a "two tract" undergraduate program. The first tract, similar to the present program with a focus on literature and criticism, requires seven courses, two of which may be related fields...
...second tract will allow undergraduate majors to take courses in any department which relate to the area being studied. Area studies will be offered in French, Hispanic, Italian, and Portuguese-Brazilian...
...program will do away with related courses. Seven courses, three of which must be in the language and literature of the area studied, will be required for both concentration and honors in the second tract...