Word: failed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recent plans, if fully enacted, would give students more academic responsibility. Fourth-course pass-fail may entice students to experiment in unfamiliar fields. And Master Chalmers has proposed that students should be allowed to devise their own fields of concentration under the direction of an ad hoc committee if the existing fields do not fit their interests. The idea is not a new one, but its acceptance would be. Interdisciplinary study, despite its success in specific projects at Harvard and M.I.T.'s research centers, is strangely threatening to some departments. Educational theorists, such as David Riesman and Christopher Jencks, explain...
Thus far, the H-bomb's fail-safe systems have not been foiled even by shattering falls from high altitudes, as happened at Palomares. In that accident, two hydrogen bombs split open on impact and spilled plutonium, dusting nearby farms, which had to be tediously decontaminated. The same kind of low-level alpha radiation, officially described as "negligible," was discovered on the icebound bay off northwestern Greenland last week. The U.S. airmen who detected the radioactivity reached the blackened, 500-yd.-long crash site on Eskimo dog sleds, the only means available in the swirling snow and 50-m.p.h...
...several university (Dalat) students. Their own histories and views of life as lived in 25 years of war were an education for me. I think that the lack of commitment to a democratic Vietnam in these young people is understandable if still disappointing to me. They fail to see why they should make plans for their country or themselves as the people and things will indefinitely continue to be chewed up by war. I committed a major faux pas when I requested a forum/interview arrangement with some of the students, thinking the transcription might be of interest to an American...
...college as well as the student, the issue of the war has finally been brought home--if not by radicals, then at least by the SSS. Students who are concerned about occupational choice cannot fail to see the sacrifice of academic freedom. Finally college administrations, if their concern is education rather than simply the supply of "more effective human beings," cannot fail to see the sacrifice of academic goals...
...either students or colleges blindly fail to see this, they will be defaulting their role as progressive leaders in this country, just as this country is defaulting that role in the world...