Word: offerings
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...such as a Harvard-type tutorial system or more theses, would effect little change. Wellesley is a small college and can operate on different systems than can a large university. There are few lecture courses. Most of the work is done in sections, and seminar courses--common for upperclassmen--offer opportunities for individual research projects. The facilities exist for more than a spoonfed, reading-list-and-1500-word-paper education. Only the desire is absent...
Though the percentage of non-resident students the College accepts each year rests on a policy decision and can be closely regulated, all indications point to a radical increase in applications from local boys who will offer to live at home if admitted. Dean Monro, former Director of the Financial Aid Office, outlines two increasing pressures on the local applicant...
...Harvard is something like the automobile market. Our best model--full residency--sells for around $2750, and our least expensive model--living at home--comes to only $1800. Between the extremes, we now offer residency in Apley Court or Wigglesworth (with no board charge) for $2500, and living in the Cooperative House (with a mild work requirement...
...suggestions have been opposed in the past on the grounds that they might tend to create an "undemocratic" class society composed of the "laborers" and the "idle rich." The danger of creating such class distinctions in Radcliffe's liberal society seems relatively remote. Since a paid student staff would offer valuable job opportunities, operate more efficiently, and free other students from a time-consuming and pointless task, the Radcliffe Administration should seriously consider this method of replacing the waiting-on program...
Houses May Offer Program...