Word: thereness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In assigning definite figures of "historical" size, the Faculty did not cut any department. Where there were inconsistencies, it added.
Now the College has decided to admit approximately 1,100 freshmen each year, which limits its enrollment to about 4,300. Tuition has had to go up to meet rising costs. Large fortunes are not being made with the same astonishing speed. Expansion is no longer the answer. There must...
Are there only a limited number of course possible in any given field? Or do department merely split up the accessible knowledge their fields into the number of courses which their teachers are capable of giving?
If the answer to the first of each pair questions is completely affirmative, there no need for flexibility in the Faculty. But less the second questions can be answer definitely to the negative, a certain amount sensitivity to student box office demand necessary.
There are three choices: to continue with the present system, and investigate its results after another decade; to make appointments as vacancies appear and as many needs arise; or to find some system which retain the consistency of the present methods but allow for reasonable flexibility and sensitivity in apportionment...