Word: background
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Survey courses are intended to include in their wide scope brief outlines of many fields of study. History, economics, literature, sociology these are included in typical survey courses. The advantage expected was that narrow specialization would not lead to narrow knowledge. Survey courses were to provide background for understanding the social duties of each profession...
...more power. Times were good. They borrowed heavily for fresh expansions, pyramided one new financial structure on top of another. Needing a friend at Nashville they "adopted" Governor Horton, insured his election with their press. Always in this new combine of politics and finance Mr. Caldwell was the looming background figure, Col. Lea the shrewd middleman, Governor Horton the small figurehead...
Warden Lawes hailed the departure as bringing into the prison administration field a new class of men who, possessing intelligence as well as a humanitarian background, will adopt the work as a career to replace the haphazard political appointees serving as wardens in almost all prisons outside of New York State...
...fortunate quality of being able to concentrate the action of the trip without robbing the account of its reality. In fact, the effect of reality is the book's major triumph. While the author cannot be compared to such a man as Conrad in conveying atmosphere and background, in giving a living, accurate, and effective picture of his subject Mr. Duguid's style is worthy of more than a passing note it is not beyond reason to say that he is a writer of promising potentialities, it he chooses to use them, we may expect more from...
Emphasizing the personal background in the career of the late George Edward Woodberry '77, L. V. Ledoux, president of the Woodberry Society, addressed the group which meet last night at the official opening of the new Poetry Room at Widener Library. The room, which has just been completed under the gift of $50,000 from Harry Harkness Flagler, of Milbrook, New Jersey, had previously been opened to the private view of a few intimate friends of Amy Lowell, Morris Gray '77, and Woodberry, to each of whom it will serve as a memorial...