Word: criteria
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first vote of the meeting, which aroused little dissent, attacked the notion that departments might recommend or veto students for the C.L.G.S., and seemed reasonable enough: criteria for determining which seniors who abandoned their theses might be eligible would vary greatly from department to department. Essentially, decisions would be arbitrary, hence unfair. It was then that the majority argued: it is much better to unsnarl the whole administrative tangle by legislating automatic eligibility for students with the proper collection of grades. Yet the opposition was quick to point out that to lift the restriction setting the choice for C.L.G.S...
...passed a Gill plan that required departments to tutor absolutely all non-Honors students, it would undoubtedly have met the fate the Tuesday legislation is likely to meet. It passed because it allowed department discretition in determining who might be excluded from tutorial through failure to satisfy rock-bottom criteria. The method of liberalizing the cum loud degree suggested here would permit like discretion--although in this case the Faculty should add the explicit enjoinder that the departments be lenient and flexible in judging a student's plea for release from the thesis. Again, practices would doubtless be "arbitrary...
...Masters, in other words, would have to agree upon upon the precise criteria according to which the machine would distribute students. They would have a wide range of decision. Octtinger points out that the Masters could if they wished insure that the machine take into account a student's order of preference for particular Houses. Furthermore, a computer could be programmed to put slightly different groups of students in each of the eight Houses, and to preserve the present shades of difference between them. Agreement on what these differences are or ought to be, on the criteria for "weighted distribution...
Oettinger confesses that the prospect of making decisions about human beings on the basis of numerical criteria is scarcely heartening, but points out that the University is making many such decisions already, especially in the Admissions Office. Anyway, he estimates that in the huge majority of cases the machine would place students in exactly the same House as the Masters and the present system. And he adds encouragingly that the automatic system could doubtless inform the Masters of any extraordinary or borderline cases, and so allow ordinary human judgment to assert itself again...
...President must choose his successor, and the choice is an important one: A.I.D. has reformed and refined its operations, but it lacks a central mind to determine the criteria of eligibility for aid and to persuade the Congress of the value of experiment. There is some thought of appointing Mr. Sargent Shriver, a splendid Peace Corps Director whose designation by the President might be all that is needed to discredit the entire Kennedy family. Only one man seems to have all the necessary virtues: Mr. Eugene Black, who just retired from the World Bank. Mr. Black can do more than...