Word: blaustein
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...academic bubonic plague," says Acting Dean Harry Yamaguchi of Indiana University's graduate school. New York University Philosophy Professor Robert Gurland is less vehement. "A viable option," he says. To Boston University's Associate Dean Ernest H. Blaustein, "it was a noble experiment that just didn't work." Those three opinions summarize the growing controversy that now marks a once popular academic innovation: the replacement of traditional letter or numerical grades with simple "pass" or "fail" marking systems...
...Conservative. Many undergraduates are as disenchanted as their professors. At the University of Southern California, for example, only 60% of the undergraduate students take advantage of their option to be marked on a pass/fail basis. "We have students who are more conservative now," explains Boston University's Dean Blaustein. "They have had pass/fail grading in high school and grammar school, and they are tired of it. They want something to help them get to grad school...
Died. Jacob Blaustein, 78, founder of the American Oil Co. and former president of the American Jewish Committee; in Baltimore. With his father, Blaustein set up the first drive-in gas station in 1915, devised the first pump with a meter that read in dollars and cents, and introduced the first antiknock fuel (it powered Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis to Europe in 1927). As a Jewish activist, Blaustein played a major role in persuading David Ben-Gurion to accept the U.N. plan to partition Palestine in 1948, and in negotiations with West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer...