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...Committee on Educational Policy has decided not to try to stiffen the "Natural Sciences bypass," which permits a student to take two departmental science courses instead of a lowel-level Nat Sci General Education course...
...main point of this change is that many students wishing to bypass the lower-level Gen Ed program in the Natural Sciences will have to fulfill the prerequisites of, even if he does not plan to take, one upper-level Nat Sci course. In almost every case, the prerequisite will be a course in, or knowledge of, calculus. The new rules have one obvious advantage. They will help create a core of non-science concentrators well-trained in mathematics. Knowledge that such students exist might induce top-flight professors to teach sophisticated upper-level Gen Ed courses in the Natural...
...problem the surgeons faced was familiar. An artery consists of two inner layers and a "backup" outer layer which the flowing blood normally never touches. In arteriosclerosis, a fatty substance hardens along the inner layers and clogs the blood flow. The trick is to clean, remove or bypass those inner layers. Surgeons once commonly slit open the artery along the length of the diseased portion and scraped out the offending matter; more recently they have been bypassing or removing the entire section and replacing it with a synthetic graft...
...works bill. After he signed the rivers-and-harbors bill, Johnson issued a peppery pronunciamento warning that he had absolutely no intention of implementing the act's provision that water-resources projects costing under $10 million be authorized by congressional public works committees-a short cut that would bypass the possibility of a presidential veto. Discussing this section, the President declared: "The people of this country did not elect me to this office to preside over its erosion. And I intend to turn over this office with all of its responsibilities and powers intact to the next...
...measure of the frustration in the Boston civil rights movement that Negro parents have finally decided to bypass the conventional forms of protest and do the only thing that can get their children into decent schools. For the last two years de facto segregation has been a focus of the Hub's civil rights activity. There have been two school boycotts, one in 1963 and another in 1964, but the School Committee has refused to recognize the issue...