Word: failed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Committee on Educational Policy is scheduled to consider fourth-course pass-fail today, and if a number of specific obstacles can be removed, the CEP will present its final draft to the Faculty. The danger is that both groups, by immersing themselves in this plan and its implementation, might ignore the broad, and vastly more important, issues it raises...
Fourth-course pass-fail neither emphasizes nor emphasizes grades, but merely redistributes them. A pass-fail plan like the one enacted this year by Yale, whatever its limits, is of a qualitatively different sort. The Yale plan alters the university's whole grading structure instead of giving students a single course in which to experiment...
...lose, pass or fail, football has given them their friends. There is nothing close to jealousy in the room, and the ones who don't play get satisfaction from the accomplishments of the starters. "It is the people that give meaning to the time you spend on it," says the injured Burns, who still faithfully attends every practice. All he can do is take practice snaps from Weiss and semi-manage the citrus fruit pill distribution, but he treasures the sense of belonging. This spirit, it is important to point out, extends beyond this room to the whole senior class...
...viability of this approach in a campaign. The war must be attacked, they asserted, on economic grounds. McCarthy must capitalize on general anti-Johnson feeling and on other issues besides the war. This line of questioning seemed to impress McCarthy. He acknowledged that a one-issue campaign would fail and agreed on the need to raise more issues. But even though McCarthy may attack the war on a variety of grounds, the moral issue will always be foremost in his mind...
NOTHING in the public realm can fail, at specific points, to aid or undermine established power. The being of man in the world is only possible through action, which requires the selection of one alternative and the foreclosures of others. One cannot, in all instances, avoid choice; the only hope is to choose responsibility, in light of the largest understanding and the most humane commitment. As the university is rooted in the world, it must, at given moments, choose a public course; the liberal contention that the university refrain from criticism is an expression of "preferential neutralism," a transparently hyprocritical...