Word: strephosymbolia
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...evident. A proliferation of paignant hardship cases has made the administrative board chafe under a strict rule that limits exemptions to those with a medically attested learning disability. And as one language professor wryly noted last week, the rule has helped induce a Cambridge epidemic of that rare disease--strephosymbolia. A subclause of the new plan wisely allows the ad board to excuse a student from the requirement if his instructor says that further language study would do him no good...
Ford had earlier indicated that the CEP might recommend no changes in the substance of the requirement while instructing the Administrative Board to be more liberal in granting exemptions. Now a physical learning disorder--strephosymbolia--is the only recognized excuse for escaping the requirement...
Already, Dean Ford said, the Ad Board is "very lax" in enforcing the letter of the language requirement which recognizes only strephosymbolia--a physical learning disorder--as justification for exemption...
...most one can reasonably hope for is a modification that would exempt those students who have great difficulty learning any language. At present, only a student which strephosymbolia, a rare disease which makes it impossible to learn foreign languages, can be excused from the requirement...
...courses" unless he decides to begin at the beginning and can't make 560 on the Proficiency Test which is given as part of the Final Examination every semester. In this case, two full years of "exposure" will get him off the hook -- unless he (or his doctor) has strephosymbolia. Jack M. Stein Chairman