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Whitlock rejected the Lobby's plan in favour of an alternate proposal by the Committee of House and Undergraduate Life. The CHUL plan called for each House to elect two students to a College-wide panel of electors. This panel will then choose two of its members for the ACSR...
SOME ARGUE, HOWEVER, that the pass-fail option permits them to take courses outsider their fields. Students are not prevented from taking these courses by say rule, of course, but their argument is that without pass-fail they would not elect them for fear of getting bad grades. One must question the student's commitment to study a new subject, however, if the mere necessity of working for a grade discourages him. Moreover, it is hard to see what real benefit can come to him from taking a course pass-fail if he has not the interest to take...
...group proposes that each House select two members to be placed on a ballot. The student body would elect the two members to the ACSR from this group of nominees...
...group, the "Harvard-Radcliffe Lobby," proposes that each House elect two prospective committee members and that from a ballot of 28 candidates, the student body vote to select the two advisory committee members...
Halberstam helps expose this nexus between interests, principles and actions. The best and the Brightest begins with a meeting between President-elect Kennedy and Robert Lovett, the torchbearer of the Establishment. Kennedy had run as a liberal, Halberstam writes, and he knew the liberal had nowhere else to go. So he turned his back on the liberal stevensonian, Chester Bowies, and cultivated the Lovetts and the Luces. Lovett impressed upon Kennedy the importance of choosing a professional Cabinet of "the right people"--people like Dean Rusk, Robert McNamara, Douglas Dillon. When Kennedy, the Irish Catholic from Boston, replied that...