Word: ratio
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Only one essential question concerning requirements remains. Should a student be permitted to substitute, at a 1.5:1 or 2:1 ratio, departmental for Gen Ed courses? Supporters of the Constable proposal wish to extend the ratio system, which now applies only to Nat Sci, to all three areas. Several other Faculty members would restrict the system to areas outside a student's concentration. "Traditionalists" oppose the system across the board...
...feel the traditionalists have the best case. Admittedly the ratio system has worked well in the Natural Sciences. But this reflects the peculiarities of that area, not the inherent advantages of the system. In the sciences, general education means training in the methods of science. Often departmental courses can impart, as well as can Gen Ed courses, an understanding of the scientific method...
...Justice's antitrust division. "You can't. But you can divide it into two parts." Justice plans to ask the court to require the bank to divide its accounts, loans, branches and personnel into two independent banks, one about twice the size of the other-the ratio between Manufacturers and Hanover...
...assume, for instance, that courses in econometrics and history are equally satisfactory means of broadening the educational horizons of Nat Sci concentrators. The Constable' Proposal's variation on this system--to permit free substitution of departmental for Gen Ed courses at a 2 to 1 or 1.5 to 1 ratio--would be little better. It is impossible to recreate the impact and advantages of a Gen Ed course simply by accumulating an arbitrary number of arbitrarily selected departmental courses. The difference between Gen Ed and departmental courses is qualitative, not quantitative...
Carrier's greatest sales, however, will continue to come from ordinary installations. Five years ago, one new house in nine was fully air conditioned; today the ratio is one in four, and U.S. home air-conditioning sales this year will reach a record $1.2 billion. Meanwhile, $1.15 billion worth of commercial air conditioning will be installed. Studies show that factory output rises with air conditioning; one-third of all industrial plants built in the last five years have been air conditioned. Since air conditioners now cool, heat, control humidity, eliminate dust and reduce noise, even 50% of the school...