Word: number
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Often it is possible to have too much of a good thing, and this point might well be applied to the number of essays that should be assigned in those courses frequently taken by the senior class. Each year, members of that learned group find themselves caught with an honors thesis and a great many course papers outside their field from which they can not be excused. Most deeply submerged are concentrators in History-Literature and Bio-Chemistry, for, belonging to no formal department, they find it very difficult to get excused from an overdoes of essays seven inside their...
...usually excused from writing more than the equivalent of one thesis in his field. But no such leniency is allowed toward course papers in other subjects, since they are outside a single department's jurisdiction. This leaves some men in the simple departments of study and a large number in the combination fields with more papers than they can handle, and very little they can do about...
Centralization is the only way out of the dilemma. The efficient methods used to discover the number of essays assigned in each course could be transferred from the departments to a central bureau, placed under the direction of the various tutorial offices. With the assistance of the tutorial system, direct contact could be maintained with the problems of the students; the number and length of essays, not their subject, would be the determinant factor, and the graduating class would not longer have to steer clear of every course with a trace of written work attached...
Several forces were at work on Tuesday which helped to defeat the Plan E charter, it has been reliably learned. Among them were the liquor interests which had women workers at each of the precincts, ranging in number from two to four...
...Balanchine has again shown a nice discretion in his adaptation of the ballet to musical comedy; at one point he combines a tap and a ballet to create an extremely pleasing and original number. His "tape-worm" finale to the first act was something of a disappointment, but it looked as if the ensemble and started on the wrong beat; another number entitled "Big Brother" just plan dies--the full chorus is on stage, but nothing happens, and a little boy is expected to carry the pens, and a little boy is expected to carry the number on adolescent cuteness...