The Shakespeare Requirement

by Julie Schumacher

Year by year, his brief, graceful life grew more distant, like that of a character in a novel his father had dearly loved but would never read again.

Education was expensive and inefficient; teaching students to think and write clearly was the same. But Hoffman, a business school graduate with the single-cell mind of a banker, had never taught anyone anything. Her ultimate plan would be to reorganize the campus into two simple units: “Numbers” and “Words.”