Word: younger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More than half the doctors under 44 will be in the armed forces. Younger men enter the Army as first lieutenants, those over 37 as captains, those over 44 as majors. Once in the Army, many specialists will have to turn to general medicine. But if U.S. troops get into large-scale battles, many doctors will have to specialize. (During World War I many general practitioners had to become specialists in neurology, plastic surgery, orthopedics...
From Camp Blanding, Fla. to Fort Lewis, Wash, the U.S. Army plugged at battle training. The emphasis was on operations of the battalion Majors, younger and slimmer than the Army had seen since World War I, led their outfits far into the field to march and dig in combat exercises. The Army, after the biggest field maneuver ever, in 1941, was preparing for field exercises...
...cent; and, at the same time, Italian has fallen off sharply in a nation-wide reaction to world affairs. In tune with these adjustments, the department will offer intensive courses in Spanish, French, and Portuguese this summer. The Romance Faculty has lost several of its younger men but the permanent staff remains intact at the moment...
There has been also no reduction in the number of Faculty members since September, but the departure of several younger men to the draft army is now imminent. No course changes have resulted except for the addition of a section in Military German in German E and the predicted dropping next fall of a number of courses which will be given in the summer term...
Originator of the School of Humanities was English Professor John Wendell Dodds, younger brother of Princeton's President Harold Dodds. Pondering Stanford's lack of a liberal arts school, Professor Dodds dreamed up one which would avoid the failings of most liberal arts colleges: i.e., "a smattering of subjects . . . a lack of cross-fertilization of ideas...