Word: departmentalizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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"It is certainly the sentiment of the department that we should make ever effort to try for these courses for next year." Flexer said. "But there are technical problems of money, scheduling, rooms, and finding the right people.
The faculty has already decided to eliminate the junior essay starting next year. "The general feeling of the department was that doing away completely with the essay would take considerable restructuring of Gov 98," Huntington said, explaining why the exam was not eliminated this year.
Students presented a petition to Samuel P. Huntington, Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government and chairman of the Government Department, asking that the junior essay be dropped this year. The petition was signed by 144 of the 189 students in Gov 98.
Frank G. Hutchins, assistant professor of Government and Head Tutor in the department, said yesterday that, although the junior essay officially counts for one half the final Gov 98 grade, the mark submitted by a tutor is rarely altered by more than half a grade.
Representatives of the Federal Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Massachusetts Department of Public Works yesterday denied that they had tried to "blackmail" Cambridge into accepting plans for the building of the Inner Belt and Route 2.