Word: failed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...your Essay on longer hair [Oct. 27], you fail to emphasize that long hair on a man is not feminine. The current difficulty of differentiating a male from a female is not due to long hair-or to clothing-but to the feminizing effect of shaving. Men were intended to have beards and women to have smooth cheeks. Men have chosen to violate our Creator's dictum-and we pay for it in blood every morning...
After a year-long study, the faculty of Yale's undergraduate college last week voted to drop its present 40-to-100 numerical grading (60 is passing). Starting immediately professors instead will give one of four possible scores: fail, pass, high pass or honors. While many schools now give students a choice of taking a few courses on a pass-or-fail basis, Yale is the nation's first major university to abandon specific grading for undergraduate courses...
Based on a 1963 television drama by Nicholas E. Baehr, The Incident is a taut, disturbing drama that tries to clarify why men fail to help each other in times of stress and danger. Unquestionably, the passengers could have saved themselves; any one of them might have got off to summon help before the thugs thought to block the doors, or at least yanked the emergency cord. Nobody does, because the paralysis of fear has linked them all. The eventual resolution is placed in the hands of the one person least caught up in the life of the jungle...
...change in the program will not be adopted until after Christmas vacation since they will be contingent on the Faculty's decision on pass-fail, H. Stuart Hughes, chairman of the department, said last night...
...pass-fail discussion ate up all the time at the meeting, Wilcox said yesterday, and the CEP postponed considering another HPC proposal for modifying the language requirement...