Word: virtualization
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Most definite change is the virtual abolition of "group requirements," which obliged a student to choose a certain number of courses for degree credit, with the result that he might not get through the required list before senior year. Henceforth students will take but five courses a year, will be able to complete their requirements by the end of sophomore year. Other innovations: abolition of midyear examinations, substitution of three reading periods (classroom holiday to permit research and study) and a comprehensive final examination in every course; abolition of half-year courses; requirement that four out of five courses must...
...indicate Vatican City's sovereignty rather than to provide a currency. The result will doubtless be the virtual hoarding of the money-as curios, mementos, keepsakes and possibly scapularies. First issue will be New Year's Day.* The Man. Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti, self-named Pius XI, last week celebrated the 51st anniversary of his ordination as priest. He was 73 last May 31. Next Feb. 6 marks the ninth anniversary of his election to St. Peter's Throne. Age has not staled his sharp intellect but has somewhat impaired his stocky body. Outdoor life, particularly mountain...
...view of the great majority of cases dealing with virtual destitution, such figures demonstrate the necessity for legal aid services as one element in the organization of every big city, according to the report...
This has been necessitated, Mr. Hammond says, by an innundation of nonresidents, who have used the library and squash-courts to the virtual exclusion of residents. Therefore he has laid down certain restrictions for the future, which he hopes will establish a more logical order of things...
Short, stout President Pearson has been in trouble with society members before. In 1910, shortly after he assumed virtual leadership, he accepted for the societies a $25,000 gift from Winchester Arms Co. Horrified bird lovers made him give it back. Since then subdued criticisms have been heard from time to time, occasional horrified ejaculations that a man with a gunner's heart had crept into the Society, was perverting its policies. Last year a pamphlet signed by the late W. DeWitt Miller, vice president of the New Jersey Audubon Society, berated large bird societies for neglecting their duties...