Word: failed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...students rampaged through the Cambridge streets, demanding the head of Alfred Vellucci. The "We want Vellucci" chant resulted from Vellucci's proposals that the Cambridge City Council confiscate all Harvard property for use as parking space. Vellucci suggested alternatively declaring Harvard a separate city from Cambridge, or, should this fail, revoking Harvard's liquor licenses. The confiscation plan was rejected by the City Council by a 5-4 vote, and a frightened Vellucci later insisted that he had only put forth the suggestions to dramatize the City's parking problems...
...Shriver, the Kennedy brother-in-law who had previously nursed the Peace Corps from dubious birth to wide acclaim, admits that the anti-poverty campaign has been and will continue to be "noisy, visible, dirty, uncomfortable and sometimes politically unpopular." He argues, nonetheless, that if it should fail, the loss would be crucially damaging...
...Spanking Machine. Most faculty debate so far has centered upon a system of awarding only "pass" or "fail" grades to students. Since Santa Cruz draws students only from the top eighth of high school classes, McHenry doubts that "we need to put them through the spanking machine, impose the fear of flunking, or a C or a D, on them." At present, students will need 36 "pass" grades in their four years to graduate. They also get written evaluations from teachers in the smaller classes and "honors," "pass" or "fail" grades on comprehensive examinations and theses. The whole system...
...sculpture is only the unifying backdrop for Brooks' photographic compositions. The charmingly personal article on the Herbert Lee Collection also misses the boat. It will certainly interest all of Mr. Lee's friends, but because the emphasis is on the Lee rather than the paintings, the article will fail to elicit widespread interest...
...Committee on Houses modifies the selection system along the lines now under discussion, it should not fail -- as it did this year -- to give students enough information on exactly how the final version will operate. The lack of communications this year resulted in monumental confusion. As Master Gill has pointed out, any modification should be accompanied by a clear, concise explanation. The Committee should improve the original system, not scrap it, and the compromise proposals seem well-designed to accomplish this refinement. Under no circumstances should the Committee kill or cripple choice in curing "raiding" and the "popularity contest...