Word: conceptive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Conversion to three-year residential Houses does not, of course, preclude the consideration of a four-year non-residential House system similar to that recently adopted at Yale; hence a move to three-year Houses, as proposed herein, should not be seen as an end to consideration of this concept...
...soar immediately with the change to three-year Houses. But the elimination of this important difference seems necessary (though not sufficient) to giving these houses equal status in the eyes of students. Again, this does not render illegitimate the preferences of some students for the four-year House concept; it merely recognizes the fact that there are not enough such students to make viable the current diversity of options. Sophomores preferring the current Quad model are out-numbered by those whose preferences are violated through assignment to the Quad...
...Editors: Your cover picture [Dec. 20] is amusing. It coincided with my concept of President-elect Carter's present status-that of a little boy who learned to swim in mud holes and is now about to jump into a big pond, having no stump or overhanging branches...
Instead of the creation of a mini-Detroit in one corner of the country, Schumacher poses the alternative concept of "intermediate technology." Under intermediate technology, the amount of capital per man employed is closer to $250 than to $6,000 (roughly the minimum amount of capital needed to provide a workplace in a factory...
However, Gardiner said "the concept of how Radcliffe keeps it books is up for drastic revision. "He would not elaborate...