Word: commits
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...rooms and "chums" (the came originally from "chamber ') from the Class of 1966 was the project of a three-man commit- senior advisers, headed...
...motion attempts to compromise between the pro-department position and the view that if a student does not wish to commit himself to a department to the extent of writing a thesis, then the department should not take part in the decisions on what kind degree he is to receive...
...General Education Committee that had to determine how to exempt Freshmen from requirements long before it could discover whether their seminars really satisfied them. "To let a significant experiment which seems to have monopolized the experience of participators proceed without from," the CRIMSON sourly commented in April, "is to commit the College to a policy by default...
This ruling has been in effect since 1937. The main argument in favor of it is that unless the College forces its students to commit themselves to their theses with some degree of finality, a large number of undergraduates will discard the work after a first, disillusioning contact with the actual problems of thesis-writing...
People favored this change for several different reasons, not the least of which was a feeling that if an honors-calibre student did not wish to commit himself to a single discipline to the extent of writing a thesis in it, there was an inconsistency in allowing the representatives of that discipline to pass judgment on the student's candidacy for an Honors degree. The cum in General Studies was thought to lie outside the province of the departments, and therefore it seemed only natural that the degree applications should be processed solely in the offices of the College...