Word: failed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...presumption that this response must consist primarily of policies and programs in the traditional areas of poltics is, I suppose, sound enough and in any event inevitable. But it is also, I believe, inadequate, and left at that will very likely fail. With no very great evidence, to be sure, but with much conviction I will argue that the American policy--the experience as well as the sense of community and shared conviction--has been impaired, has atrophied in our time because of the retreat from architecture and public buildings as a conscious element of public policy and a purposeful...
...time when there is so much that is brutal, we risk nothing less than our humanity if we fail to do so. The task of this less than allpowerful nation is to show to the world and to ourselves that, sensing our limitations, we know also our strength, and that we will husband and develop those strengths. The surest sign of whether we have done this will reside in the buildings and public places which we shall build in our time, and for which we will be remembered or forgotten in history
...Yale College faculty's decision to adopt a form of pass-fail is not nearly so remarkable as reliance on a numerical grading system for so long in the past. Yale students, of course, greeted the abolishment of numerical grades with cheers Thursday. They know that most college-level work cannot be measured with numerical precision...
Although the Yale faculty decision should help eliminate student preoccupation with grade averages, the new system is no radical innovation. The four new grading categories--fail, pass, high pass, and honors--are little more than polite words for letter grades. The faculty did refuse, however, to set any guidelines for these categories, thereby making cumulative averages or specific class standings meaningless. The move will undoubtedly encourage some students to take more of the difficult courses that they would otherwise avoid...
...measure, which goes into effect immediately this term, stipulates that students be marked on a basis of "fail," "pass," "high pass," and "honors." The Faculty voted down a motion to put any guidelines on the four categories...