Word: field
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Commenting on Miss Bullard's gift to the Medical School, Dean George Packard Berry said, "Miss Bullard's interest in supporting research in the field of neurology at the Harvard Medical School will not only greatly strengthen existing activities but also foster research in new areas of basic science as applied to neurological problems...
...remedy the situation, Lowell passed through the Governing Board a program for concentration and distribution which has become the basis of the present program in General Education. Beginning with the Class of 1914, the Administration required that six of the 16 courses for the degree be in a single field and six others spread among three different fields. This, they hoped, would force every student in the College to achieve Lowell's ideal of a scholar--"to know a little of everything and something well...
Married. David Field Beatty, 2nd Earl Beatty, 54, greying playboy son of Britain's World War I Grand Fleet commander, grandson of Chicago's Merchant Prince Marshall Field; and Diane Kirk, 18, London model; he for the fourth time, she for the first, in Midhurst, England...
...ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF Music, by Marc Pincherle (220 pp.; Reynal; $18), is a bold undertaking by a noted French musicologist: a history of Western music from early Christian chants to the present. Like any authoritative book that covers so vast a field, it seems perfunctory at times. But the basic information is there, and great taste has gone into the selection of 240 illustrations, ranging from a loth century B.C. harpist to Jazzman Sydney Bechet...
...greater fault. Obsessed by the reality of objects, he describes them endlessly, and then repeats his descriptions-a column that casts a shadow, a squashed centipede, the location of a window, of a garden. In one maddening three-page section, he explains carefully the shape of the banana fields, the number of rows in each field, how many trees stand in each row. Such writing is not merely capricious; the looming fact of the plantation's physical existence is established-for whatever readers remain. Lost among the bananas and a time sequence that flickers eerily through past, present...