Word: failed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Yale College Faculty voted over-whelmingly yesterday to abolish its numerical grading system and to adopt a pass-fail system for all undergraduate courses...
...fans, Tarzan is alive and well and resides somewhere in the freshman dorms. About twice a week he performs his cry, while a recording of jungle noises blares from Mower. Hall. Only a few disgruntled wonks, the University police, and some proctors fail to appreciate the ritual. They have been searching frantically, so far in vain, for a clue to the identify of Tarzan. All they know is that he is a freshman with a remarkable voice and a talent for imitation...
This can not fail to cause a number of serious problems. One of the most immediate worries for a recent immigrant is finding a job. "No black bastards wanted here," and "No vacancy and why don't you go back to your own country," are the answers he learns to expect. Almost one half of the immigrants surveyed by the National Committee for Commonwealth Immigrants (NCCI), which was set up two years ago to advise the government on the integration of Commonwealth immigrants, claimed that they had been discriminated against. Discrimination does not often assume so crass a form. Most...
...immigrants began in the '50's, and Britain has compulsory education up to the age of 16. So it is the next few years that will show whether the school system has succeeded in wiping out these initial disadvantages, or whether it is only maintaining them. If the schools fail to integrate the British-born children of immigrants, it will prove that British society as it is now constituted has failed to cope with, and indeed has succeeded in perpetuating, the problem...
...dynamics of this process can be seen at work in student activity at Harvard. Last spring the HPC proposed a fourth course pass-fail option to the University's Committee on Educational Policy. The CEP tabled the proposal. It has since asked two HPC members to present the proposal directly to the Committee...