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...course reduction should not be reserved for geniuses who are held back by the course system or for budding scholars who have their life's work in medieval history already planned out; the program should be opened up to greater numbers of relatively undistinguished students who want to avail themselves of its benefits, especially in replacing courses with independent study in junior and senior years. Effectiveness of the program is directly related to the number of students participating...
Since the News Department is always spiriting away our microphones, tape recorders, and other broadcast equipment, careful scheduling is required to assure that this equipment is available at the specified time. But all the foregoing efforts are to no avail if our electronic equipment, most of which is turned on twenty hours a day, is not frequently checked and maintained. It is this sense of immediacy (and the possibility of disaster) which produces the special challenges and rewards, as well as the daily miseries, of radio broadcasting...
...Harvard, Michigan, and Clarkson sextets have all been flown to Colorado at the Broadmoor's expense, and they all are perfectly free to avail themselves of any and all of the recreational facilities that this resort offers...
Tutorial for credit and course reduction offer gradeless, relatively independent study for some students. The line between between them is vague, and it is difficult to assess the extent to which tutorial for credit suceeds when it is anything besides a thesis course. Not too many students avail themselves of this privilege, and it is not vigorously pushed by many departments...
...avail. It's almost as if the University were making a last ditch stand against The Machine knowing all the time that history is on the side of the 47 keys. In any case, you can count on another thought from us sometime around the end of April. Spring should be well under way by then...