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Word: forded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Near the end of the meeting Oscar Handlin, Charles Warren Pofessor of American History, moved that Harvard's required course load be reduced to three instead of letting one of the present four be taken pass-fail. The motion was defeated by what Dean Ford called "a thunderous voice vote...

Author: By Richard R. Edmonds, | Title: Faculty Votes Approval For CEP Pass-Fail Plan | 12/6/1967 | See Source »

David Riesman '31, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences, spoke against Handlin's amendment, which last night he termed "tricky and even weird." He argued that Handlin's view was worth considering later but that it would be capricious to substitute it now for a plan painstakingly worked out by the Harvard Policy Committee...

Author: By Richard R. Edmonds, | Title: Faculty Votes Approval For CEP Pass-Fail Plan | 12/6/1967 | See Source »

...Ford had intended not to ask for a Faculty vote on pass-fail until January's meeting, but was "much surprised" by the Faculty's willingness to move the question so quickly...

Author: By Richard R. Edmonds, | Title: Faculty Votes Approval For CEP Pass-Fail Plan | 12/6/1967 | See Source »

...Because Ford had assured members of several departments that there would be no vote until next month, the Faculty will be asked in January to confirm its approval of pass-fail yesterday...

Author: By Richard R. Edmonds, | Title: Faculty Votes Approval For CEP Pass-Fail Plan | 12/6/1967 | See Source »

...interim, individual departments will be meeting to decide whether students under their jurisdiction can count pass-fail courses toward concentration requirements. Ford said yesterday that he is "reconciled to the probability that there will be a good deal of variety" in those decisions

Author: By Richard R. Edmonds, | Title: Faculty Votes Approval For CEP Pass-Fail Plan | 12/6/1967 | See Source »

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