Word: bachelor
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...cost or measure of selectivity, or both, comparable to Harvard College. Harvard also sponsors a night school--the Extension School--which this fall, under an open admissions policy, enrolled 4700 students who will pay about $20 per credit hour for Harvard courses that could eventually lead to a bachelor's degree...
...bring in people to teach in non-credit seminars and innovative programs such as "Preventive Medicine" and "Professional Bridge" that wouldn't normally be acceptable under Faculty auspices, the introduction this year of a Certificate of Advanced Study for the equivalent of a year's work beyond the bachelor's level, and the expansion of the school into granting graduate degrees in areas not covered by other Harvard faculties, like offering a master's in Applied Arts or Liberal Studies...
...most of its 66 years, the school has undergone relatively little change. Except for the Faculty awarding the school degree-granting power (for the Bachelor of Arts in 1960, the Associate of Arts in 1971 and the Certificate of Advanced Study in 1976), a general expansion of programs in the '60s, and the introduction of Extension alumni to the Commencement parade, the school "has piddled along on its own friendly turf for years," Crooks says...
...bachelor, Dapper humorously flirts with most of the white women he meets, including Wallace's sister-in-law. He seems preoccupied with homosexuals and black women, often commenting on their looks or just impolitely staring, saying "that black cunt" or "There goes a big red mama...
...scene. Good behavior is not paying off. In the old days, the advantage of scarcity enhanced the value of the degree. Now one out of every two labor-market entrants has some post-secondary school training. By the end of this academic year, about 1.3 million people will receive bachelor's, master's and doctor's degrees-nearly double the annual level of ten years ago. During the same period, however, the number of professional, technical and managerial jobs in the U.S. has barely grown more than a third. How much longer graduating classes can trek into...