Word: failed
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...widespread feeling among faculty and student body alike that provision need be made for students to diversify their education, relieved from the pressure of grades, appears to have deluded both into a proposal, a fourth course pass-fail, which despite its first hand appearance is likely to produce the contrary, a concentration in education. This unfortunate result is largely the result of the incentive structure which will remain in the grading system, and the interpretation of grades...
...Your Essay was a splendid contribution toward a solution of the problem of compensating automobile-accident victims [Jan. 26]. Only lawyers with a vested interest in automobile-accident litigation fail to discard the "central myth" that auto accidents can be avoided and that recovery must be founded on fault. The lethal nature of motor vehicles and the sheer weight of their numbers render accidents inevitable, divesting them of purely private concern-the subject of litigation predicated on negligence...
...small group of senior officers-who almost always go along with his advice. Morgan has concentrated one-third of its equity investments in just ten stocks, the names of which are a well-guarded secret. Hathaway and men like him are not averse to selling any stocks that fail to do as well as expected. Some institutional managers figure that if money goes up 100% in one stock, it does not rise as much as if they had bought five stocks successively and sold each one when it advanced 20%. Had they done the latter, they would be starting from...
...will try his hand at such timely subjects as the coming elections. His political convictions, though, are no secret. "I want to help get Johnson elected," he says. "I have known Johnsons all my life. The greatness of the country is that it can produce so many. If he fails, I fail. If he succeeds, I succeed...
...University's government, it is unrealistic to think of Harvard as a democracy for students. It is not futile, however, as the Harvard Policy Committee and its chairman have proved, to organize and articulate opinions before the sources of Faculty power. The success of HPC audits and its pass-fail proposal show that the departmental oligarchies and the Dean of the Faculty are open to student pressure. But it is hard to justify any undergraduate government, except in terms of sheer parliamentary amusement, unless it seeks to express educational views effectively...