Word: majoring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...made the basis of the House Plan--the House Plan is larger and wider in its implications than this system which is merely part of a coordinated education--yet it must be expanded and broadened as the facilities for its administration increase. Chemistry is now the only major department that remains without a general examination and there is no valid reason for its failure to fall into line...
...shall present the best seven of its graduates as a team, and that the teams shall be rated according to the weighted average based upon the highest examination grades obtained in four selected subjects in the case of each of their seven members. The subjects must represent the four major fields of the candidates' preparation, and in order to find a place on the team a candidate must take examinations of the College Entrance Examinations of the College Entrance Examination Board. He cannot claim admission to college without examination, under the honor plan...
After having served as Major in the United States Army, he was attached as liaison officer to the French general staff and was decorated with the cross of the Legion of Honor...
...classification runs through seventeen major classes, but is left open at both ends--an admission of the probable extension of knowledge in both directions. The significance of the classification is said to lie in the skeleton which is afforded all science to bring some measure of order out of the world's present chaotic knowledge of the systems of various kinds. All systems find a place in this synthesis--atoms, comets, and galaxies; man, radiation, and the space-time complex. When looked at in this objective way, human beings, and all associated terrestrial organisms, appear only parenthetically...
...solar system and planetary nebulae are closely related subdivisions in the class of Planetary Structures, which also includes ordinary stars and therefore constitutes the major portion of the visible universe...