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Meaningful curriculum reform must involve a shift of emphasis from testing and certification to inquiry and participation. I propose, as a first step to curriculum reform, that Harvard College abolish the system of grades and credits, and cease granting degrees...
Recently science has offered aid to the historian with devices that analyze stone, specify the quarry it came from and describe how long it has been smothered with dirt. Works of art wait in line for a meeting with these machines which attempt to abolish some of the misconceptions about the Middle Ages...
...protest the possibility of a jetport near Florida's Everglades; they mourned, with TIME, the passing of the golden-cheeked warbler and shuddered at the arrival of the African snail. Other stories on the dangers of nuclear power, overdevelopment in Vermont, noise pollution in big cities, how to abolish billboards, antipollution suits in Illinois drew wide comment. Many readers simply expressed an opinion, as did former Interior Secretary Stewart Udall, that "TIME'S concern over the environment's deterioration gives us fresh hope that this fight...
...college abolish the conventional restraints of required courses and letter-grades, while still requiring that a student focus his academic efforts? How much responsibility for both "intellectual" and "personal" growth can it leave to the students themselves? Brown has answered these questions; Harvard has not yet faced the problem...
...demonstrators, calling their action a takeover and live-in," demanded that the M.I.T. administration rescind "all past discipline" and abolish the school's student-faculty disciplinary committee...