Word: adoption
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...juniors. In some ways this proved a good thing. Chapman was able to maintain the respect of both his fellow faculty members and the undergraduate community. But the price of this respect was considerable: answerable to both the students and the Faculty Committee, Chapman was forced to adopt conciliatory rather than positive positions...
...elimination of the sophomore essay was one of several sweeping changes which history tutors urged the Department to adopt last spring -- and the only one which the Department finally approved...
Princeton, one of the first Ivy League colleges to adopt a pass-fail plan, is now seriously considering an even more radical departure from the traditional grading system...
...their full responsibilities and potentials as citizens until the white majority grants them that freedom. "In the ghetto," he says, "there are no choices, no power, no ability to make responses. Therefore there is no responsibility." Considering that the U.S. is the first society in history to adopt as its national goal the full economic integration and social equality of different races, the Negro's choices are widening with fair rapidity. The U.S. has certainly come an incredibly long way since Abraham Lincoln, shortly before the end of the Civil War, asked his logistics experts to determine whether...
Vietnam, for the moment, demands a degree of dishonesty from all congressional candidates who hope to be elected -- either they must consciously de-emphasize an issue they know to be paramount, or they must adopt an inconsistent and therefore dishonest stand designed to please all comers...