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by Jim Evans
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Friday, 30 June 2006 |
 SMART TALK
By Dr. Will S. Sert
PREREQUISITE: It wasn’t my idea to write this column, but I’m a senior member of the staff at the Institute for the Linguistically Impaired, and I’m retiring soon. Then I won’t have to listen to the howls of campus officials who are never wrong.
You know the type: “This catalogue was composed by Dr. Smythe and myself,” they say, “and Dr. Smythe is a trained expert.” Of course, you know that the dean of admissions should have said, “by Dr. Smythe and me,” and “expert,” but I digress.
After heated discussion in Strunk Hall, my Board of Directors says I must tell the waiting world that prerequisite is as redundant as prerecorded, and every college catalog looks foolish. Every course has requisites. There.
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