Word: audits
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This channeling of student efforts into three courses is by no means a reflection on the student body's ambition or initiative, nor that grades are a necessary means of soliciting effort (though they are clearly important since no one appears to regard the right to audit as a suitable substitute for a pass-fail fourth course); rather, this is an inevitable result of the pressure to achieve grades created externally from the use of grade averages, the relief of which is the accepted motive, and rightly so, for the current proposal. Moreover, this concentration in efforts by students...
...underlying the current discussion and the retention of a grade system which would appear to be a much superior means of achieving the desired objectives would be the option for students to take a fifth course pass-fail. This is different in one important respect from the right to audit, namely, that a record is available of a student's choice of direction of these efforts (a difference which students may value considerably). Students will argue that this implies the right to diversify their education only "after hours," and the administration will suggest that these added courses will increase...
...profit lowered last year's cumulative deficit $6994 to $2272. In August of this year HSA had estimated that it would come out with a surplus of about $3000, but the final audit which was released today proved they had been too optimistic...
Cheetahs still too young to have had an audit, but Simmons claims a circulation of 200,000 and says hopeful things about advertising. Simmons and Publisher Leonard Mogel have provided 50% of the financing; seven of their Wall Street friends have put up the other half. If Cheetah does not make it, however, Simmons has a more conventional iron in the fire. This month he brings out a magazine devoted to a fad that will doubtless never die: Weight-Watchers...
...program's problem, the report says, is that so few benefit from it. Independent Study is regulated to an obscure corner of Rules relating to College Studies, the audit charges, and many students go through Harvard without knowing what they are missing...