Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Leafing through the catalog in search of a course, the undergraduate is struck by the large selection in upper level General Education. These courses, composed without relation to a specific departmental framework, consider widely varying topics of more than routine interest, and for a prerequisite they rarely demand more than an intellectual concern with the subject...
...upper level Gen Ed courses listed, only five are in the Natural Sciences, and only three of these do not have scientific prerequisites which effectively limit them to science concentrators. This is an insufficient number, especially when one notes that few if any of the regular science courses are suitable for the non-scientist who feels that some science, particularly broader principles and concepts, is essential to a liberal education in today's society...
...though I didn't exist without music.'' He played anything and everything from Ravel to riverboat. at sight or from memory. He barreled through the local public library's scores of the great operas and croaked the male parts while his sister Shirley shrilled the upper registers? and mother and father sat and wondered helplessly what God had wrought...
...ultimate argument for the bills is, however, one that should come from the Senate itself. Popular pressure cannot determine the Senate's course, but it sometimes has made that body aware of a crisis, and in critical times the upper House has moved quickly, lest the deeply respected force of law be shattered. The Senate tries never to respond to popular whim, but to a continuing swell of sentiment it may react...
Vermont--North Troy, Jay Peak, fair to good; Stowe, Mount Mansfield, four trails and slopes open and fair to good, Spruce Peak area closed; Wilmington, Mount Snow, no skiing upper, poor to fair lower, fair to good on lower Overbrook...