Word: wide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...others, they seem bent on coddling criminals, abolishing God and undoing the U.S. political system. This week the Court begins its 175th year with even some of its best friends worried about its wide-ranging attack on social ills that are supposedly the business of Congress and state legislatures. Can the Court cure them by proscription-and survive the reaction...
...large measure, Goldwater himself provoked clerical disapproval. By abandoning a campaign of reasoned conservatism for a confusing variety of unfocused stands and charges, he has left himself wide open to criticism -and churchmen have often responded with a rancor that is undisguisedly political rather than morally persuasive...
...short, the Doty Committee wants students both to cover a wide range of topics and to pursue special interests in depth at the same time. These contradictory goals cannot be accomplished without increasing the total Gen Ed course load. We strongly agree with the Doty Committee that the total requirements should not be increased. But we believe that the contradiction can be resolved by choosing between the alternatives of depth and breadth...
...COMMISSION--Secondly, the report, in its discussion of the means for attaining the goals of General Education, has set up a contradiction. The Committee hopes to include more areas of knowledge in the new program, it wants students to have wide experience outside their own field of concentration, but also it hopes undergraduates will pursue certain Gen Ed topics in depth through course sequences. In short, the Doty Committee wants students to cover a wide range of topics but also wants them to pursue special interests in depth at the same time. Without increasing the total Gen Ed requirement beyond...
...would cite those present Gen Ed courses which do an excellent job of giving the student a broad, usable vocabulary, i.e., Nat Sci 5, Hum 6, Soc Sci 2. For example, Nat Sci 5 combines physics, chemistry and biology in giving the student tools to gain insight into a wide range of scientific topics. Similarly, Soc Sci 2 and Hum 6 allow the student to read history or literature with a greatly enhanced sense of perspective. On the other hand, a course like Nat Sci 10 is too narrowly conceived to qualify as a future Gen Ed course...