Word: failed
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...Committee on Undergraduate Education, its primary responsibility would be to consider and to initiate studies and proposals to improve the quality of education in Harvard College. Thus, for example, it might concern itself with the operations of the tutorial system, freshman seminars, general education, the grading system, pass-fail, independent study, and other experiments in education for students in Harvard College. While not focusing on specific departmental requirements, this committee would undertake to improve departmental channels of communication between undergraduates and faculty. It would also serve as an advisory body to the Dean of the College and the Dean...
Georgia's hebetudinous Lester Maddox last week denounced textbooks, films and courses that fail to glorify the U.S. Speaking to the Governor's Conference on Education, the former fried-chicken king said: "Some things have been added that should be burned-and you know it." One item that particularly inflamed him was a textbook that called Patrick Henry an "agitator." Maddox said he had been raised to think of Henry as a hero. The audience of educators and school-board members replied with scattered applause. Cross burning may be a dying art in the South, but if Maddox...
...profits and dividends. At its convention in Atlantic City, the A.F.L.-C.I.O. last week called for Government action to hold down the costs of medical care, insurance and housing. The Administration, however, remains dead set against price controls on the grounds that they are unwieldy, unworkable and fail to attack the real causes of inflation...
Student speakers, charging that the school's competition divides and isolates students, argued for complex curricular reform including pass-fail grading, mandatory written assignments, and smaller classes...
...individuals and groups use every possible opportunity to press for its immediate cessation. Because the circumstances are unique, the Faculty's decision to consider political questions today would not set a precedent for future votes on more mundane issues. But because the war is so abhorrent, the Faculty cannot fail to consider these two resolutions in formal session...