Word: essays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...That was an interesting and perceptive Essay on Negro achievements and aspirations...
...Your Essay on the Negro contributes to the current liberal no-lash, the let's-ease-up-for-a-while feeling spreading among many well-meaning whites. What do your "remarkable" progress, "dramatic gains," "soaring" percentage increases, "impressive" and "enormous" advances add up to? More segregation in Northern schools, limping tokenism in the South, rising unemployment, widening income disparities, a few Negro Congressmen, and a general slowdown of progress in housing and school integration enforcement. Your estimate that the "Negro's choices are widening with fair rapidity" and that we have come "an incredibly long way" since Lincoln...
...History Department has voted to give junior general examinations and to abolish its sophomore essay requirement...
Students' sophomore tutorial grades, which previously depended on how well they did in the essay, will now be based on their performance in tutorial throughout the year, Fleming said...
...elimination of the sophomore essay was one of several sweeping changes which history tutors urged the Department to adopt last spring -- and the only one which the Department finally approved...