Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...outlined its reasons for supporting the CEP proposal in a statement to all Faculty members. The CEP proposal allows a student to fulfill his Gen Ed requirement in the present manner - by taking lower-level Gen Ed courses - or with selected departmental offerings ("or their equivalents") followed by upper-level Gen Ed courses...
...praised the sequential alternative to lower-level Gen Ed courses as a way "to keep pace with the increasing academic sophistication of entering classes." Its statement warned, however, that the success of the new program "will obviously depend on the creation of new upper-level courses in General Education," especially in the Natural Sciences...
Drawn about 1440, probably by a monk in a Swiss scriptorium, the map's startling features are a strikingly accurate delineation of Greenland in the upper left-hand corner and a representation of "Vinland" (the name Vikings from Iceland and Greenland in the 10th century gave a portion of the coast of North America). There, crudely drawn but unmistakable, are Hudson Bay and the Gulf of St. Lawrence...
...offshore islands, probably based on reports of Japan. Africa is lopped off below Ethiopi, but shows the magnus [ft] uuius which is apparently the Niger. In the Atlantic, there are the two mythical quad-shaped islands beyond the Azores that most medieval cartographers insistently put in. But in the upper left-hand corner were the unmistakable outlines of Greenland and Vinland, the latter rounded off into an island in accordance with the medieval assumption that the universal sea surrounded any area that had not been explored. Both were plainly labeled (GRONELĀDA and VINLANDA INSULA...
...brief, the dating rests on two major pieces of physical evidence. First, the scribe who drew the map and copied the text used a writing style known as Oberrheinische Bastarda, or Upper Rhineland bastard (or cursive) book hand, which is confined to the period 1415-1460. Since the handwriting is in fully developed form and free of accretions from styles that developed later, a date in the 1440s seems most likely. Second, the parchment and paper used can be traced to the same period, and a unique spectacled head of a bull used as a watermark on the paper shows...