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...about the capacities and rightful privileges of the Harvard student. The department cannot point to any unique conditions, inherent in the teaching of English, that justify its program. If the Department insists on maintaining its restrictive policy, it should at least recognize that rank listing is not a valid criterion for admission to honors work. The department awards honors degrees solely on the basis of departmental work. Surely a sophomore tutor's estimation of a student's abilities in English need not be balanced out by a compilation of grades based on courses which may have nothing to do with...
...because the court has shorn obscenity of constitutional protection, it feels duty-bound to deal individually with all such cases that reach it. And however objective it tries to be, the court is mired in what Justice Brennan calls "a difficult, recurring and unpleasant task"-setting a national moral criterion for a people of widely diverse standards...
...state that elects Wayne Morse Senator is obviously loaded with screwballs. The results in Oregon [May 22] should not be used as a criterion for the rest of the country...
...that someone happened to want to offer as Gen Ed courses, and sometimes--particularly in the sciences--the planning of courses has been based as much upon considerations of financing and staffing as upon a real evaluation of the course's suitability for the purposes of General Education (a criterion which is difficult to apply today, for few, if any, of the existing courses have any relation to the purposes set forth in the Redbook...
...they are faced with grade averages calculated to five digits, and they must pretend that an A instead of an A- in this course or that is a sure sign of intellectual capacities better employed. They have to play this game because academic achievement is defined as the principal criterion of intellectual capacity. If the tutor's comments are uninformed and uninformative, as they often are, and no undergraduate member knows the candidate, grades are the only bit of information left...