Word: conductivity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weekly pressure of a face-to-face meeting with their tutors and by knowing the importance of recommendations from their junior-year advisers for final honors and graduate schools. High grades could be expected, and there is no reason to believe that tutors--who are trusted to conduct and grade sections in departmental courses --are being too lenient. There is naturally some difference in standards, but the department's courses also cover a wide range, from well-known rigorous courses, for example, to a few well-known guts...
Both History and Social Studies allow tutors to have change of the junior tutorials they conduct and to report grades for their students. For some reason, Government has set up a committee unfamiliar with a student's tutorial to judge whether he should receive a different grade then his tutor recommends, and to make that decision on the basis of a ten-page paper which could at best represent only a portion of his tutorial work. Giving responsibility to tutors would be a more complete remedy for the arbitrary grading in Gov 98 then the partial measure the department...
...either wrong or going about life ineffectually. He thinks that he has the answer." That definition might equally fit Atheist O'Hair ("I will separate church and state, by God"), Hugh Hefner, Admiral Hyman Rickover-or Sirhan Sirhan. In fact, genuine eccentricity generally stops far short of pathological conduct. According to McEwan, the real thing is deviant behavior that does not require society to do anything about the behavior...
...anonymous donor has given the Harvard Undergraduate Council $800 to hire two students to plan and conduct a fund-raising drive. The HUC hopes the drive will elicit $7000 from alumni who were active in student government while they were at Harvard...
...their opinion, the convocation of the Federal Assembly there symbolizes West Berlin's political inclusion in West Germany. But the Soviets and East Germans maintain that West Berlin is a separate political entity that rests on Communist territory, and that the West Germans have no right to conduct political business there...