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...from the single-issue approach. They preferred to set up the organization first, and then let issues feed into it as they arose. But the departmental reports had also indicated that most of the teaching fellows, even in the more apathetic departments, were interested specifically in wages and work load. Kenneth A. Waltzer, one of the proponents of the single-issue approach, explained later, "There has to be an issue which galvanizes people. You can't form an organization just by getting it on the books." The steering committee finally elected to take the economic issue approach at the start...
Dudley, Fitts says in his introduction that his first note on Tate's manuscript was "a robust amused declarative style." This is a reasonable first impression. Tate has created graceful balances with the potentially disastrous load of fact his senses yield him; and he has done it largely by virtue of his metaphorical muscle. His rhythms and his syntax tend to confirm the analogies he suggests, Thus, in "Pastoral Scene...
First is the practice of issuing daily reading assignments. For many of the large lecture classes a certain number of pages is assigned for each session, forcing a daily work-load and putting more pressure on the student by taking the initiative to study out of her hands...
...deliberations that could lead to fundamental change in its curriculum. The Medical School, reacting to prodding from its new dean, Dr. Robert H. Ebert, began debating a series of major proposals for revamping medical instruction. Under the present curriculum, all students are required to carry the same basic course load. A special subcommittee suggested that this be altered. The subcommittee report emphasized the need of more flexibility in the curriculum to accommodate the varying needs and interests of students. It proposed that only a basic "core curriculum" be required of students and that the elective offerings be increased. The committee...
...specific issues, the committee voted to recommend that the organization take up financial issues -- both wages and work load -- on an interdepartmental basis...