Word: failed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nemesis: Pass-Fail...
...nemesis, which hung it up for a year, was pass-fail. It wreaked any amount--depending on who is relating the story--of damage to the committee's morale, prestige, and future...
...liberalizing the rules for taking a free fifth course, and experimenting with ungraded courses as were being tried at Princeton and Brown. Someone, on one of those Friday afternoons, suggested combining the two ideas in a proposal to allow students to take a free fifth course on a pass-fail basis. This combination, some members maintain, was the first mistake...
Time ran out last spring, and the committee began the year with the same question: what to do about the fifth course policy, and what to do about pass-fail. Encouraged by Dean Monro, and tired of going over the same ground again and again, the committee wrote the framework of a pass-fail fifth course proposal and presented it to the Faculty's Committee on Educational Policy for approval and details. Acceptance by the CEP would mean that Faculty approval was virtually certain. With Monro presenting the HPC's case, the CEP accepted the proposal and filled...
...remarkably like a Middle Eastern version of the "domino theory" that is so derisively scorned by Administration critics when applied to Asia. "Aqaba is the test from which the Arab nations, and behind them all the nations of Asia and Africa, will take their cue," she wrote. "If we fail to act to confirm the principle of freedom of navigation, every person in every one of these countries will take note...