Word: allowables
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Virtually unnoticed at the time, Cleveland's Western Reserve University and Case Institute of Technology quietly merged ten months ago into a single school. Only last week, in the festivities formally installing its first president, Robert Warren Morse, 46, did the new institution finally allow itself some of the fanfare appropriate to its status...
Columbia's Faculty Committee on Instruction, which controls the University's academic structure, met in special session yesterday. Their recommendations were not revealed. However, sources indicated the Committee was considering a proposal to allow all students to receive a "pass" for the term's work. Under this procedure, students would not have to take final exams, and the student body effectively would be dismissed until September...
...favor of anything that would reduce the polarized situation that we are now in, anything that will allow us an umbrella for graceful withdrawal," he continues. "The look of the situation is more important than the content. If the look is ungraceful or dishonorable we may face really severe recriminations at home, and that would be really tragic...
...that many students arrive at Harvard with a set of personality characteristics well-suited to business, but are looking forward to a career in one of the more "glamorous" professions: law, medicine, academia. Finding that there are more things to do in the college community than study, these students allow the college to develop their personalities and turn them away from the purely academic life toward the myriad of social and business activities available to undergraduates...
...Advisory Council has decided that while it is permissible for the Career office and Department placement officers to invite in most prospective employers, there may be some employers whose activities are so repugnant that they offend the moral sense of a substantial portion of the University, and that to allow them in might in effect be seen as University condonement of what they do. The most obvious examples of such organizations would be Dow Chemical Corporation and the Central Intelligence Agency...