Word: failings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Combined with the fourth-course pass-fail plan the Faculty approved last Fall, yesterday's action will give almost every student in the College the option of taking one of his four courses without a grade. But the pass-fail legislation set a limit of one ungraded course per term, so no one will be able to take both a pass-fail course and an Independent Study at the same time...
...temporary halt in gym construction as a favor to the mayor, not in response to the needs of the community. I.D.A. is not mentioned at all. The faculty has made no attempt to demand the power to negotiate, or the power to control the police. This indicates that they fail to recognize what is clear to everyone else: the Administration has been thoroughly discredited. At the same time that the Faculty has been claiming they were "mediating" in good faith, they have made arrangements with the Administration to control "ingress and egress" from Low, supposedly in an attempt to limit...
...Hanging over the bright prospects of peacetime business are the same clouds that trouble the economy in war: inflation and the imbalance of payments. "Our first priority must be to preserve the integrity of the dollar," warned President Rudolph Peterson of the Bank of America last week. "If we fail in that, we will be totally unable to solve our great domestic problems." Only 41% of last year's $4 billion U.S. balance of payments deficit-the chief source of the dollar's weakness abroad-arose as a result of the war in Viet Nam. Now, accelerating inflation...
...group at the Law School is something which touches everybody. There is little doubt that objection to the Choate Club would be minimal if the group were composed entirely of students, or of faculty, and if the Law School were a low-key institution run on a pass-fail system. The outsiders could brush it off as "the beautiful people doing their thing." But a secret fraternal order of faculty and students does great damage at a competitive institution which justifies its competitiveness on the accuracy of its system for rewarding merit. Where one decimal point in the grade average...
...abolition of all grades and the substitution of a "personal assessment of progress" combined with pass-fail in all courses...