Word: failed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from students. The Harvard Under-Policy Committee, the two organs of student "government" at the College, made important proposals--and had them accepted (a major change in parietals came from the HUC, and the HPC asked that students be allowed to take a free fifth course on a pass-fail basis; this is still in the works). When Phillips Brooks House Association indicated it was in financial trouble, Monro, as head of the Faculty committee for PBHA, helped shape a proposal for aid from the Faculty of Art sand Sciences. Undoubtedly, he also helped convince Dean Ford to accept...
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...take place at the Medical School, or any other areas of the University, will be lasting in effect. For example, in the College this year, the Harvard Policy Committee proposed that all students be allowed to take a free fifth course and have it graded only on a "pass-fail" basis. The Committee for Educational Policy has accepted this concept, added some details of its own, and now will put it before the full Faculty. If the proposal is passed, it will probably mean a significant increase in the academic workload of many students in the College. Likewise...
...agenda for that meeting has not been drawn up yet, according to Edward B. McMenamin, secretary of the University. (But Dean Truman has officially referred the proposal to the Council, so it seems highly unlikely that the Council will fail to consider...
...government, as the Liberal Left and Moynihan fail to recognize, is not an instrument for the initiation and sustenance of social change. Its purpose is to institutionalize social change when it occurs--to legitimize the new order. It is somewhat naive, as the leaders of the War on Poverty have by now recognized, to expect a government body which rests on consensus to foster social change. As Moynihan himself says, "A quest for peace of this kind gives maximum leverage to the group with the most intransigent and assertive opinions, and the greatest ideological discipline" -- or, simply, the group with...