<p>About colorado college, I can’t even see it for the humanities. It would really help if one were a very quick reader. When was the last time any of us read ten Russian novels in three weeks, took exams, and wrote papers? I read very fast, but I wouldn’t even want to teach a course that required me to do that much reading and have that much to accomplish in three weeks. It might not even be the best way to learn. There’s a limit to the information the brain can absorb at one sitting before absorption rate declines quickly. As you say, one of the criteria of any semester, it seems, is a period of illness lasting two days to two weeks. News alert to parents: not only doesn’t the reading get done by everyone, I can’t see how most kids aren’t reading sparks notes to the exclusion of most of the novels. Such courses would be grad school on steroids without any intelligent discussion.</p>