Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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The potential saving is much greater than the printer's bill for that section of "Rules." We have an elaborate administrative machinery which exists, principally to enforce concentration rules. It involves enormous amounts of paper work and man-hours-on the part of head tutors, departmental secretaries, and the registrar...
THE PARADOX of the past is that liberalizing the rules can increase their complexity. Exceptions and variants do purchase more individual choice in the material studied, but as they are incorporated into the rules, the text gets longer. What tends to come out is not something neat and streamlined but...
But the rules do serve, it can be argued, to keep the student from scattering his course selections all over everywhere and coming out with nothing but a sort of Reader's Digest education, Intellectual dilettantism. The rules make sure the student at least does something in his four years...
In fact, my expectation of what would happen if one no longer had to "concentrate" is not , that most programs of study would sag and become amorphous. I don't even think things would change very much, except that there would be a lot less fussing. Concentration rules are not...
AND WHAT if they don't? I'm not sure I see why we should try to do anything about that. We can just admit that the B.A. doesn't really say much about a person except that he has spent a certain amount of time here. If we did...