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At Oxford and Cambridge, students devote all of their academic work towards one field. According to Hurst, there are "no core requirements. If you enter a field, that's all you ever do." In fact, students are "not allowed to take courses in other fields," and very few students do...
Furthermore, because students devote all of their time to one field, they find it easier to get to know their department, the fellows say. In England, "integration in the department is much higher," Hurst says.
Although petition candidates have run onpolitically-oriented platforms, Craig stressedthat her candidacy is not motivated by a singleissue. "I'm not running with any particular pointof view," said Craig. "I am running as anindividual [who wants] to devote time and energy"to issues that are of concern to the University...
The hero, here renamed Dexter Cornell (Dennis Quaid, charming even unto death), is determined not to go gentle into that good night. He will devote his final hours to finding out who slipped him slow-acting but irreversible poison. But Cornell is no longer an accountant. He is a blocked...
"It's great for [tutees] to see a big person who is happy and has time to devote to them. Its nice for us to have a little person who doesn't want to talk about existentialism," Schwalbe explains. "A lot of us come to Harvard because we like school...