Word: failings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...there is present quantitative factor, a sort of death by inches. To a certain point this is supportable in that all organ and never centers do not become irreversibly damaged simultaneously: consciousness as a brain function is often irretrievably destroyed months to years before the respiratory and vasomotor centers fail. At the same time one can share Schreiner's (1966, p. 100) disconent and insist that "a coordinating vital principle exists which is either there or not there." This vital principle comes into being when the sperm fertilizes the ovum and persists until life no longer is present. The moment...
Only a handful of Harvard departments have decided on a second pas-fail question--whether their concentrators can count pass-fail course toward degree requirements. The largest undergraduate fields of concentration--History, Government, English, and Economics won't be ready to settle the issue until January...
Regulations set by the Anthropology Department last week may be a model of what is to come in other fields. Anthropology concentrators will be allowed to take two pass-fail half courses for concentration. But none of the specifically required courses in the field can be taken without a grade...
...Romance Language Department established a similar set-up this week for its concentrators. Three full courses required of all concentrators will have to be taken graded. But students can fill out the rest of their requirements in the field with as many pass-fail courses as they wish...
...Faculty's final vote confirming its approval of pass-fail, originally scheduled for January, has been postponed to February to give the departments more time to decide what they will do about pass-fail...