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David Riesman '31, Ford II Professor of Social Sciences yesterday delivered the final lecture to his trend-setting Social Sciences 136, "Character and Social Structure in America," which 17 years ago was the first course in Harvard's history not to require a final exam...
...these days when every student is grade conscious," Riesman said, "a course with no final exam--where there is no certainty of a high grade--the students would tend to take a course seriously. A few students have failed, to their astonishment...
...other patrolmen were passed over for promotion when the list was reinstituted. They have filed $100,000 damage suits in U.S. District Court claiming that their equal opportunity rights were violated when 25 patrolmen with lower exam scores received promotion ahead of them...
Patrolmen Edward Hussey and Peter DeLuca achieved the fourth and fifth best scores on the exam but have not yet been promoted to sergeant, James Pool, DeLuca's attorney, said yesterday...
James L. Sullivan, city manager, said yesterday that the promotion decisions were made by Pisani on the basis of a rating system that included more than the "numerical" results of the civil service exam...