Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Any college administrator knows that most of his time is taken up with matters that concern only a relative handful of students-the few who have serious disciplinary problems, flunk courses, or are too hung-up to function well. Most rules, especially those that set minimal standards, are only a...
Perhaps Gen Ed requirements are foreign to this proposal too. As I understand them, they serve to guarantee that students take some courses outside their concentration areas. If so, suppressing concentrations defines that reason out of existence. If we did decide there should be some rule about distribution in various...
THIS proposal would no more do away with tutorial than departments. The departments would still be there; they just wouldn't prescribe requirements. They could, however, and probably should, draw up a sample program something like our present rules (but greatly decomplicated) to serve as a guide to student who...
I realize that, in line with these suggestions, one could go further. Logically, perhaps one should. That is where my own hesitations on the "how far can we go" matter come in. Why not scuttle the sixteen-course requirement as well and leave every man's education up to him...
When the locals laughed at Harvard's presence in the Greensboro Basketball Classic, it was nothing new. Ivy League basketball, and the Crimson in particular, have long been a source of amusement in any town that knows what real basketball is all about.