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Because three years of language study in high school are generally necessary to pass Harvard's requirement, the University should say so explicitly. And admissions office information should make clear that the student who must pass the requirement in college often has to forego taking more stimulating and valuable courses. At present, the admissions office only advises as much language training as possible, and says nothing about the inconvenience of meeting the requirement in college...
Nearly 60 percent of the student body commutes and must therefore forego extra-curricular activities in favor of strap-hanging and traffic jamming...
Radcliffe women will forego their Vitamin A in the interest of weight reduction, according to Miss Marjorie Russ, Radcliffe dietitian. Annex dining halls now serve skim milk in response to student demand for fat-type milk...
...courses which do not obviously contribute to their occupational objectives. The students are not entirely to blame, however. Medical schools, for instance, contribute to overspecialization by suggesting lists of "recommended" science courses beyond the necessary minimum. As a result, say the authors, premeds interested in the humanities tend to forego courses in literature in order to study more chemistry...
...junior Year program is not packaged. Any student may be excused from the "hustling down to Tours" with authorization from the chairman of the French Department at the college or university. In other words, if Harvard's "well-prepared students" knew French well enough "in the first place" to forego this delightful period in a famed center of international education situated in the celebrated chateau district, they could secure permission...