Word: failed
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Columbia last week joined Princeton, Pennsylvania, and Brown in adopting a pass-fail system to alleviate grade pressure. At the same time, Princeton radically expanded its present plan and now will not limit the number of courses taken by a student for ungraded credit...
Under the plans, all students have the option to take one course in which they receive a "pass" or "fail" grade. The course cannot be used to fulfill a distribution requirement or as credit in a field of concentration...
...Columbia Committee on Instruction, which submitted the pass-fail proposal to the faculty last month, stated that the program's aim is "both to alleviate an excessive emphasis on grades and to encourage students to take more courses in areas outside their fields of specialization...
This comic picaresque stuff is so easy to read that the reader might fail to notice Céline's didactic intentions. Courtial is Yongkind, grown up and equipped with a degree from the polytechnic, but the same optimistic cretin. In the person of Courtial, Celine pours all the vitriol of his prose on an age that believed science and progress would confer inestimable benefits upon mankind. Courtial's windy rhetoric on the subject of these benefits is mocked by the hiss of hot gases from his chronically punctured blimp. By the time the first great technological...
...buried in the stinking trash. In English, there has been no one like him since Swift, and in French, there has been no one like him at all. Mad doctors both-in their different ways. Only moral simpletons who have not understood that pity is the cruel emotion will fail to grasp the root of the rage of either...