Word: failed
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...given issue. The sources of substantive power--the Administration and Faculty members--are accessible to students with only a few exceptions. Black students this spring have obtained a new field of concentration in Afro-American studies; the Harvard Policy Committee has successfully promoted a fourth-course pass-fail plan, an extension of the independent study program, a reduction in the language department, and an elimination of the junior general examinations in History; an ad hoc committee issued a report recommending weekday parietal extensions from 2 p.m. to midnight and had the plan approved...
...term as head of the Harvard Policy Council, Henry Norr has demonstrated an ability to work with students and administrators to achieve important academic reforms. Pass-fail courses are only one of the major innovations which he leaves behind in Harvard College. Norr is well-qualified to represent student sentiment on the Overseers, and there is every reason to believe that he will prove an able and energetic member of the Board...
...issue in the fall was pass-fail and when the year began the HPC's chances of getting anything passed looked bleak. The spring befeore had seemed a real boggle as the new HPC repudiated a pass-fail plan by their predecessors which was close to adoption...
...Wellesley, and doubtlessly soon in in other places, middle class people will strike out defensively at their own schools and teachers. They wish that the schools were turning their children back towards them, and instead it is the place where they make the contacts with others that they fail to make with them...
...worker reasonably hope that his offspring will inherit the chance for upward mobility that he was denied. For the vast majority of lower-class children, education ends at about 16, whereupon apprenticeship begins. Only 10% of French university students come from the working class, and many of those few fail to get through the maze of exams to the final degree so necessary for admission to the French Establishment...