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...return to English 10, together with a large increase in the number of upper-level surveys and a memorandum urging all tutors to recommend those courses to their tutees, constitute the Department's attempt to offset the current situation. Bate pointed out that at present many students know so little English literary history that they would be unable to name a single significant author or work in several important 50-year periods...
...consistent with the underlying philosophy of the report. The Committee saw a need for "general education," then a newly coined phrase, to counter a growing sociological fragmentation, parallel to the academic fragmentation imposed by the demands of departmental specialization. The overall rationale of the core concept was to offset specialization not only in the academic context, but, if backed by programs in enough educational institutions, in the sociological framework as well. It was to do this by acquainting the members of the report's "Free Society" with their common cultural heritage...
...possibilities are not at all unrealistic, for it was in just this way that the University of Chicago defined its own General Education program, added, like Harvard's, as a counterbalance to the departments. Defenders of the Harvard system point out that the establishment of a new department to offset the fragmentation caused by others has its drawbacks as a measure of logic; and it is difficult to believe that either Harvard or Chicago, having once decided to borrow personnel on a part-time basis from the existing Departments, would have been able to attract men for the new courses...
Imbalance in financial distribution among the various fields--certain specialized sciences receive large shares. In the past, the University has tried to offset this imbalance by giving more of its own funds to the remaining disciplines...
...exporter if one of his foreign customers goes broke or simply refuses to pay. Washington is also prodding its allies to buy more of their defense materials in the U.S. Major success so far: a recent West German promise to buy enough arms and ammunition in the U.S. to offset U.S. defense costs in Germany-some $600 million a year...