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...allow more credit in meeting the requirement to General Education than to departmental courses, either on a 1-to-15 or on a 1-to-2 ratio: thus a student could meet the requirement by taking either one-and-a-half or twice as many departmental as General Education courses (the Kaysen proposal...
...Education and some other courses but still allow flexibility and consideration for the programs of individual students. Under this arrangement, the requirement of four "outside" courses would be divided so that two must be selected from the designated list or replaced by nondesignated courses at a 1-to-15 ratio; the other two might be either General Education or departmental courses. The designated list would include lower-level General Education courses and other broad introductory courses approved by the General Education Committee. The difficulty of compiling the list would be reduced (a) by keeping it comparatively short...
...alternative is included: the "designated courses" could be replaced by nondesignated ones at a 1-to 1.5 ratio--three departmental half courses would substitute for a full course from the designated list...
...skis today are laminated and the best combination in wooden skis is hickery with ash; flexibility is determined by the ratio of the two. In the lower price ranges ash is mainly used. The ski should have a durable plastic base, preferably "Kofix" or "P-Tex" which are polyethylene bottoms, require very little waxing and are easy to repair. Steel edges should be interlocking and slightly offset at tips and ends of the ski. The top should have a plastic cover or lacquer and plastic top edges...
...stock prices, the figure to watch is the supremely important price-earnings ratio-the price of stocks cornpared with their per-share earnings. Stocks in the Dow-Jones index were selling at a precariously high 24-times-earnings just before the 1962 blackout, but the ratio has settled down to a steady and conservative 19.4-to-l in the past year. Average earnings of the Dow-Jones industrials this year are expected to edge above $50 per share. The bulls multiply that by 19.4 and come up with the conclusion that the Dow-Jones by year's end will...