Word: fails
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...swords are, to Western eyes, paradoxical. At first, you cannot fail to respond to them as weapons, designed to cut and kill. But at the same time they are quite untactile. Bear down on the ha, the edge, and it will (to put it mildly) hurt you, being of surgical sharpness. Yet you hurt it. The skin of the steel can be ruined by the moisture and acids left by one fingerprint; breathe on it and it will begin to rust in 30 minutes. The blades conjure up tension between one's senses of sight and touch-threat...
Under the new requirements, pass-fail courses reduce a candidate's chances for magna and cum laude degrees, beginning with the class...
...very great number of students are upset and want to change the status of their spring-semester courses from pass-fail to graded, the Ad Board will announce a procedure to allow them to do so, Whitlock said...
Several senior tutors yesterday suggested that the Administrative Board allow freshmen and sophomores to change their pass-fail courses taken this semester to graded status, in order to avoid jeapordizing their chances for honors degrees under new regulations approved last week...
...Faculty's effort to reduce the number of students graduating with honors is reactionary in more than its effect on pass-fail. Raising the honors standards can only be interpreted as a move against students, who already have a great deal of pressure on them to produce. And the Faculty's vote to accept Professor Heimert's amendment moving the effective dates of the legislation forward a year--without even asking members of the Administrative Board or the Faculty Council why both bodies voted unanimously against it--shows great irresponsibility toward those students already enrolled in the College, many...