Word: specialists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bruins' Gossler, specialist in the 50 free, is expected to be the big challenge to the Varsity Milt Busby and Joe Fox. Gossler took his event handily from M.I.T., and will compete in the medley tonight and possibly the 100 free as well...
Raising an almost imperceptible eyebrow (by mentioning that the letter came by prepaid cable), the Times ran Tovarish Shisheyev's dispatch in its news columns. It remained for a Times reader to supply the grain of salt. Wrote Russian-born J. Anthony Marcus, a veteran foreign-trade specialist: "It would not surprise me to learn that the 'chief engineer' had no more to do with the writing and dispatching of the cable than you or I. ... With about 1,600 words in the cable, even at the lowest rate, the cost would have been about $100, close...
...External Affairs Department's experienced, able Under Secretary Lester B. ("Mike") Pearson. No, said Prime Minister Mackenzie King, Canada needs him at home. The next suggestion was General Andrew G. L. McNaughton. But the P.M. thought that McNaughton had his hands full as Canada's atomic-energy specialist. Then the P.M.'s advisers proposed Dana Wil-gress, former ambassador to Russia. Just the man, the P.M. thought-until he learned that Wilgress, now at the I.T.O. meeting in Havana, was exhausted and would not accept the job. Other candidates? The P.M.'s advisers shrugged; Canada, with...
...distinct fields of concentration. Into one of these a student must channel a large part of his academic efforts. After four years of study he will emerge a product of Harvard education, a product that is intended to leave college with the basic tools for success in a specialist society and also to retain a broad base of general knowledge. This is the avowed purpose of the system for concentration and distribution of undergraduate studies...
...number of courses introducing the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Natural Sciences at the service of the College. These wide surveys are an attempt to coordinate the type of course offered for distribution with the ideals of the system. At present General Education lies buried under the mass of specialist courses. As a theory it hopes to present a constructive solution to the problem that has haunted American education for half a century...