Word: fails
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...undergraduate receives one F or two Ds in any semester, he has an unsatisfactory record and his case is discussed at a meeting of the ad board. Roughly half of those students who receive unsatisfactory records are placed on probation for a semester. Students who fail two or more are usually asked to withdraw. Failure of a course in two successive semesters usually results in either probation or withdrawal. Approximately half of those students placed on probation are restricted from participating in any extracurricular activities...
...such prayers are a simplistic pipedream at Harvard. This is because Harvard is a particularly stolid institution, well-rooted and paralyzed by tradition. Brown University, for example, no longer takes any kind of action against students who fail one--or even two--courses per semester. The only requirement the university poses to a student who fails a course is that the credit must be made up in order for the student to graduate...
Bradford added the administration also will penalize students who refuse to cross the picket lines to attend classes. He said the college will continue to fail students who miss three class meetings in a course...
...with Rupert, the memory of the thin, tall and quiet man whose door was always open, whose mind was always fresh, and whose kind gentleness was so deeply touching because he was the least self-conscious of persons will remain in our hearts-as an inspiration and, whenever we fail, as a gnawing reproach-as long as we live. Stanley Hoffmann Professor of Government
...Student Assembly may fail, both at representing students and at having impact on Harvard. The very structure of the assembly contains too many alarming tendencies toward hot air. But the assembly hasn't really tried either representing or influencing yet. The CDU slate of candidates in today's and tomorrow's elections may at least...