Word: forded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Faculty fooled Dean Ford this Tuesday by halting its debate after an hour and approving a plan which will allow all students here to take a quarter of their college courses ungraded. The approval wasn't surprising, but its briskness was. The Dean's eventual adoption has been insured since it was approved in principle a month ago by the Committee on Educational Policy, but Ford thought the Faculty would want a longer debate before passing...
...undoubtedly swayed by the single strongest argument for pass-fail which has been constantly repeated during the two-year debate. David Riesman '31, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Science, states it best: "Most students here take too many courses. They chop their emotional energies into too many little bits. We should be encouraging students to play from weakness instead of strength, but the system here puts pressure on the student not to extend himself in areas where he's awkward because he fears not doing brilliantly...
...thrown on its own devices, the HPC was able to convince the Faculty that the fourth-course pass-fail idea is workable. The HPC turned to what Norr calls "a lot of politics" -- a letter to Dean Ford, conferences with CEP secretary Edward T. Wilcox, and visits to individual CEP members...
...Harvard chapter of Students for a Democratic Society has challenged President Pusey, Dean Ford, and Dean Glimp to debate "Is the University neutral?" with three SDS members before Christmas...
...Harvard has taken stands before, specifically anti-Communist ones during the McCarthy era," said Dyen. He commented that Ford's decision to exclude students on probation from the new Student-Faculty Advisory Council was "clearly political and aimed at keeping radical students off the committee...