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Word: subfields (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...interest fluctuates from year to year. As students have of late gravitated en masse towards American government, for example, faculty specialists in this field have had their hands full. Obviously, faculty hiring could never keep pace with random shifts in student interest. But if the department finds a particular subfield oversubscribed one year, excising the 25 or so lowest-ranked students--only a handful of whose theses would be in the oversubscribed field--is cruel and unusual punishment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Unnecessarily Exclusive | 4/23/1990 | See Source »

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