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[Fred Shapiro]

On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Kathleen E. Miller wrote:

> Me too. We didn't have such a numbering system at all really. Courses were
> called by names not numbers. The only numbers I can think of were on the
> English courses -- Literary Tradition I, II, III, and IV. Shortened to Lit.
> Trad + number. (And EVERYONE had to take all four regardless of major). Our
> beginning politics course (also required of everyone) was called Principles
> of American Politics and so forth.

At my alma mater, an obscure technical school in Eastern Massachusetts
where even the buildings are known only by numbers, the course numbers
were all-numerical as well: 7.11, 7.16, etc., no words describing the
department.

Fred Shapiro


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