Word: failings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...commonest defense against dissent is to recognize only the most irresponsible part of it. Policy-makers who fail to respond to responsible dissent are their own indictment: they respond only to the irresponsible because they have no response for the responsible...
Other departments plan to allow a limited number of pass-fail courses for concentration (Economics--two, History and Lit--four), often with the stipulation that core courses in the field must be taken with a grade. At the extreme of liberality are History of Science, Astronomy, and German, which allow concentrators to use their pass-fail option entirely for satisfying concentration requirements...
...largest departments are putting a conservative construction on pass-fail. History has not yet decided, but both the Government and English Departments will not allow any pass-fail courses to count for concentration. Fine Arts, Folklore and Mythology, Mathematics, Philosophy, and Slavic have made the same decision...
...heavy irony hangs over the successes of the Harvard Policy Committee last fall. By pushing for fourth-course pass-fail and a reduction in the language requirement, the old HPC has probably reduced the potential of its successors. Deans Ford and Glimp have both said in the last month that the Faculty has reached a saturation point for proposals "that look like a lowering of academic standards." Asking a liberalization of Independent Study rules, for instance, "would be bad Faculty politics right now," Ford said...
Independent Study looms as the only failure in an amazingly effective year for the HPC. The Faculty vote yesterday confirming fourth-course pass-fail was the final process of careful politicking that started last spring. And the Faculty seems certain to approve later this spring an HPC-initiated reduction in the language requirement and a new department of Environmental and Visual Studies--meticulously described in a massive HPC audit. Since early November the main item of business at every Committee on Educational Policy meeting has come from...