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...these courses, which may either be taken together or individually, six hours of laboratory work a week will be required and the emphasis of the courses will be laid more strongly upon the details of the work than the formation of a broad cultural background of general science...
...Biology course is the first direct example of the influence of the report of the Student Council Committee on Education. The report advised the division of the present general science course, with the idea of giving those who were taking the course for distribution a more cultural background and those who were concentrating in science more concentrated study and laboratory work...
Instead of stressing the details of biological work as these courses will do, Biology A will be particularly for the student who wishes to gain a cultural scientific background...
...director of "The Ten Commandments" succeeds pretty well in keeping in the background the revolution, and concentrates his plot upon the three main characters a prince, a princess, and a boatman. For once there are no gold bathtubs, and panorama effects give way to close-ups as the emotions of the three principles are pictured...
...impressions of the paper are, however, in many respects the direct opposite of his. It seems to me that it is the great things in the current news that you bring out with unrivaled clearness; and you not only do this but you give a concise background of current situations?a thing which other news magazines do only rarely ; or, in the cases where you do not do this, you give references to past numbers of the magazine, where the elements of the background can be readily collected. It is only by understanding the earlier stages of a situation that...