Word: background
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another unique departure is the lack of prerequisites throughout the field. The concentrator or the free lance student can get into the area at almost any point. Social Relations la is a good background for all other courses in the department, but it is not essential and can be finessed if one's special interests are confined...
...hours, inevitably taking the edge off the news. Papers were turning more & more to roundups and canned features to make up for the news they skipped. The Trib's Managing Editor J. Loy ("Pat") Maloney thought it was not all loss. Said he: "We have told the background of the news better under strike conditions than [before]." And Daily News Managing Editor Everett Norlander detected another gain: "We've learned how to keep our copy short." Stories had to be chopped well down, because larger VariType faces take more space than linotype...
...field examines man as a political animal and studies the directions of the world's historical background. You get a chance to read a lot of great classical history. History strikes a middle of the road line between retrospective sociology and a study of the uniformities of history. You can even read Toynbee. But don't contemplate going into History just because you think it's easy...
Berlin will discuss the novel as a political and philosophical tract. Inkeles will talk on the political and historical background of the book, while Guerard will take up its literary aspects. "Darkness at Noon" deals with the experiences of a political prisoner during the Communist purge...
...article also describes Conant's background, and his career at Harvard. "Before entering College he had graduated brilliantly from Roxbury Latin, and had already done the equivalent of freshman and sophomore work in chemistry and physics. At Harvard he completed the four-year course in three years with high honors, making Phi Beta Kappa, holding an Honorary John Harvard Scholarship, and working as an editor of the CRIMSON...