Word: basically
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...material demands patience, imagination and a real knowledge of the resources of the morgue. To help matters, each research librarian is a specialist in a specific field. He or she works closely with the editorial staff in these fields and attends story conferences to help out on two basic jobs: 1) selecting morgue material requested when stories are in the making; 2) helping the editorial researchers find the sources for checking their facts after stories are written...
...catalogue paper was handmade in England; fine old castoff linen shirts from Italy provided its basic rag stock. The ink, pure lampblack carbon and linseed oil unadulterated by modern aniline dyes, was specially ground in Germany in 1928. A new type font was designed by Jan van Krimpen, cast in The Netherlands. Two three-ton hand presses were shipped from England to Pittsburgh for the actual printing...
...labor unions and universities, the state and a host of others." On the other hand, there are two modern institutions that should be exclusively concerned with the needs of the individual: the church and the liberal arts college. It is their job, he argued, to improve the individual-the basic unit out of which all social institutions, good & bad, are made...
...concentration requirements actually are quite flexible. One needs only the basic Math course (although 105 is to be strongly recommended), two courses in a Physics more advanced than 10 or 11, and a course in a related field. Honors means an extra course and a half. Competition for graduate school is rugged, but it's all on grades--no generals or theses...
Elementary courses are usually exhaustive and fairly dull. As the student rises in the field, he finds the courses far more interesting, and, despite any rumor to the contrary, a good deal harder. It is usually better to get a firm foundation in the basic courses of the 100 series than to leap unprepared at Bainbridge or Bridgeman...