Word: failings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...responders likely to fall? Can anyone doubt that it will be into the category of those not sufficiently hostile to the war and the draft to fill out the document? Or, to put it another way, is it likely that anyone who does feel strongly against the draft would fail to take this opportunity to express himself? In either case, the inevitable conclusion is that the vast majority of those not answering the questionnaire do not hold as deep a dissent as those who did answer. So what did the questionnaire show? It showed that 22 per cent...
...strictly circumscribed by the language of the Course Catalogue. But Chalmers' suggestion would affect only a handful of students with well-developed interests. A more serious problem faced by many more students is the barriers to experimenting with interests they may have in unfamiliar areas. The pass-fail proposal--for which departments are now writing the rules--is one small step to meet the problem. It would allow students to take one course each year on a pass-fail basis--if the department or the instructor doesn't object...
...curbs that departments are now writing suggest that every effort will be made to see that the pass-fail option is exercised by students who wish to take an especially hard elective without the risk of receiving a bad grade. It remains to be seen whether the option provides much incentive. It could turn out that graduate schools and just about everyone else will come to think of a "pass" as simply a euphemism for a bad mark, and that students will be advised to stay away from courses that they don't feel capable of taking for a letter...
...orators of past centuries," was in Israel at the time of his planned speech at the 1952 Mock Convention. A Baptist minister eventually delivered the keynote, substituting for McKeldin's replacement. (The speakers program has always been plagued by bad luck--one of this year's speakers planned speakers fail-to come here because of a cracked...
...even if we fail to achieve any programmatic change with this war, we'll still have this new race of people, who won't sell out because they've gone through too much. And all of us are going to be around when the next war comes...