Word: rigidities
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...academic calendar. The two-term system, culminating in a frenetic Reading Period, does not utilize classrooms and highly-paid professors' time as effectively as would a four-term program--three terms in the fall, winter, and spring, and one in the present summer vacation. The present framework is overly rigid, lacking the flexibility and experimentation possible under a revised system. Students could attend any of the ten-week terms; without taking a summer vacation, a student could graduate in three years. The academic load might be changed to three courses. Rescheduling and calendar shuffling certainly are not expensive, considering...
...individual tutorial, the House system, or Freshman Seminars; there is no space to discuss more than a few proposals. Yet by testing new ideas and adopting flexible desirable innovations, Mr. Bundy's successor can make his greatest contribution to the College. Good education need be neither expensive nor rigid...
According to Painter Charles Le Brun, all art could be reduced to a series of formulas. It should appeal to the mind rather than the eye, must force nature to comply with the rigid rules of perspective, proportion and reason. Since form was more permanent than color, it was also more important. Le Brun even wrote a manual on how to portray each emotion...
...then given up an early ambition to be an architect because he wanted to work on his own without having to meet the demands of clients, contractors and zoning laws. Unsure where his tastes and talents lay, he began by cutting out mobiles, only to find the shapes too "rigid"' for his taste. Like Reg Butler and Geoffrey Clarke, his most notable English contemporaries, Chadwick took to the welding torch...
...BUDGET BALANCE. It is "highly important," but should not be rigid in any one single year...