Word: containment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Women who have made a "significant contribution" to American life will be featured in a biographical dictionary now being prepared under Radcliffe sponsorship. The work will contain brief write-ups of about 1,500 women and will comprise two or more volumes, according to Edward T. James '38, editor...
...human species seems headed for space, where the practical pickings are few and exceedingly hard to pick. Much more profitable, many scientists believe, would be a vigorous attack on the earth's own oceans. They cover more than two-thirds of the planet's surface, contain the bulk of its life. But most of their dark bottoms and middle depths are not so well known as the visible surface of the moon...
This week a committee appointed by the National Academy of Sciences and headed by Geochemist Harrison Brown of Caltech sketched out a ten-year program for unlocking the ocean treasure house, which may contain as much of value to man as the earth's land. As the planet becomes more thickly populated, whole nations may get the bulk of their food from the fertile sea, as well as minerals and fuel in vast abundance. A quick and valuable byproduct of oceanography will be improved knowledge of the conditions governing submarine warfare. The committee did not mention, but was well...
...general reading or study. The CEP proposals have tended to produce a polarization of undergraduates into honors and non-honors groups which unfortunately lumps this middle segment of students with scholastic reprobates. It is heartening to see that in the past two weeks plans have been advanced which together contain all the elements needed for a non-honors program which satisfies the needs of the serious student...
Recent proposals contain elements which provide a good foundation for a non-honors program. In both junior and senior years a tutorial group would be offered which would meet once a week. There would be many such groups, each combining the five fields of Economics, English, Government, History, and Social Relations, in a different and possibly unique way. The particular combinations would be decided beforehand by a committee drawn from these five departments which at present do not have non-honors tutorial programs...