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...transformation of the University's science departments into service schools calls for a corresponding acceleration in those departments, like mathematics, which are feeders for the sciences. No engineer, physicist, or chemist can proceed far without a basic mathematical training, for more than one bridge has fallen or radio gone dead because of weaknesses in its designer's calculus...
Both the Chemistry and Biology departments have found it necessary to adjust the number of courses they offer. Convinced of the need for all chemists to have identical basic training, the Chemistry department has made no changes in the content of its existing courses, but has added Chemistry 2b to its program. This concentrated course in organic chemistry, the only course added by the department since Pearl Harbor, is a full course pressed into one semester to prepare its 15 enrollees for the early opening of medical schools on July...
...that the secret session was "devoted to the question of the defense of Canada in its widest qualification." But all Canada knew what "widest qualification" meant. The threat of a German fleet in the Atlantic, the possibility of Japanese invasion of Alaska and British Columbia demanded second thoughts on basic war strategy. The possible shelling of Atlantic coastal towns would be bad enough, but Canadians, remembering Pearl Harbor, thought also of Dutch Harbor. If the Japanese hoped to protect themselves from the wrath to come, they would have to neutralize Alaska, from which the Aleutian Islands stretch west and south...
This was more than an affair of honor between two men. Here, near a private zoo inside the walled gardens of the Villalos Granados, 20 miles from Buenos Aires, a duel was to be fought between principals who symbolized the basic cleavage in Argentine politics : Deputy Rául Damonte Taborda, leader of thwarted liberals, and Colonel Enrique Rottjer, prototype of the ruling conservatives...
...going into the services, they will take them without any shoving. They will grab at the chance to choose the sort of war work they are most fitted for, and get a head start in preparing for it. It is enough to offer war courses. But it is the basic liberal arts courses that must be enforced. Perhaps that is what President Conant meant when he said: "During the war we might concentrate our educational efforts not so much on those students who wish to dig deeply into one subject, but rather on those who seek a more general education...