Word: firstness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dean Sheppard (138) battled Terry Bowen evenly for two periods, but tired in the last stanza to drop a 4-2 decision. Steady John Stevenson scored a take-down in each period to outdistance Harvard's Tony Rayner (177), 6-0. The loss was Rayner's first this season...
...slim majority of first-year law students favors a mandatory pass-fail grading system for at least the first year of law school, according to a poll of about 90 per cent of the class...
...questionnaire-drafted by three first-year students calling themselves the Ad Hoc Committee on Grade Reform-asked students to choose between five grading systems including possible combinations of letter grades, pass-fail, and honors-satisfactory-low-fail, for their three years...
Only five per cent chose the present grading system, which allows students a choice of the three alternatives for their first year while retaining the old system of letter grades for the last two years...
...School faculty instituted this system last Spring when first-year students mounted a strong campaign in favor of a uniform pass-fail system. Even then, however, there was some dissatisfaction and one student commented, "It's clear the faculty realizes this is a temporary solution...