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...that the 20 papers required of the Freshmen represent "four times the usual upper class load." Since the middle-group courses vary widely in their requirements it is hard to see how the "usual upper class load" can be determined. A single term paper in a middle-group course may involve more work than half a dozen short papers of the kind required in General Education A. Furthermore, if there is a disproportion between the amount of writing required of Freshmen and of upper classmen, it does not follow that the Freshmen write too much. Strong arguments can be made...
Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong arrived in Chicago for a theater engagement with his usual load of patent medicines and some ready advice for flu sufferers. Said he: "People wouldn't have flu at all if they'd watch the gargle and the eyewash and drink plenty of Pluto water...
...thing, there are too many of them. The average requirement of two General Education courses plus the compulsory Gen. Ed. Ahf affair runs to twenty papers a year--four times the usual upper class load. If Freshmen spent the four or five days their instructors say a typical G.E. theme needs, they would be pouring a third of their first year into papers alone...
...Freshmen write a short paper every two weeks for Gen. Ed. Ahf--on a subject usually unrelated to the rest of their work. If they could offer a Social Science or Humanities paper to Ahf in lieu of one of these two weeks assignments, a part of the paper load would disappear. The section man in the first course could comb the offering for content and ideas, the Ahf man for writing and expression...
Germans first got stirred up over the recruiters last November, when German border guards were roughly handled by French gendarmes as they tried to stop a bus load of legion recruits crossing from Germany into France (others are ferried across the Rhine by night, or flown over by air ferry). Last week the West German Bundestag voted to jail anyone "recruiting or attempting to recruit" Germans for service in a foreign army outside Germany. The vote was unanimous, a rare event in the Bundestag. The only hitch is that the law will apply only to Germans, for the French under...