Word: failed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cannot be turned off by Johnson. We believe that, for the first time since the bombing of the North began, we are at a point where, the anti-war movement could draw the line and confront itself and the American people with the consequences of further escalation. If we fail to do this now, no matter what kind of long-range projections we make, we lose an opportunity, essential to our future, to force people to give basic reconsideration to what they have been doing in and out of the anti-war movement.And it is that consideration, that penetration...
...would have other small but beneficial effects. A pass-fail plan would make it easier for a student who needs good grades to concentrate on three courses instead of four, and there is no reason why he should not have that freedom. It would make it easier for other students to have some more free time--again, not a bad idea...
...Harvard Policy Committee has strenthened the case for pass-fail here by finally coming up with a reasonable plan for implementing it. Last year's HPC proposed a plan, later retracted, which would have permitted only students who were taking five courses to have one pass-fail...
...time, it seemed like a good idea; in retrospect, its defects are more conspicuous than its advantages. It would never have reached the one group of students pass-fail is supposed to help most--those who have to work hard getting good grades in their regular courses. In effect, it would have rewarded students for doing more work, negating the very advantages it set out to create...
...plan, which would permit any student to take one of his courses pass-fail, makes much more sense. It is worthy of the Faculty's support, and it should get that support sometime within the next few months, so that pass-fail can be a reality by this Fall...