Word: gov
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Isaac Kramnick '59, who will be head tutor in Government next year, said that the basic reason for the projected change in the grading of senior tutorial is that the grade in Gov 99 is usually super-flous. "The grade has stood all these years because the official description of the course has been the thesis and material in the field. This has been a euphemism for many years for the thesis and a certain amount of cramming for general examinations," Kramnick added. He noted that tutors "either send in an A-" or try to predict the thesis grade...
...proposal has thus far met with little opposition, Kramnick said, and only one counter-proposal has been presented. This suggestion would have made the Gov 99 grade like the Gov 98 grade, which is based half on the tutor's grade and half on the junior essay...
King began his visit with a brief courtesy call on Gov. John A. Volpe, whom he praised for "your great support in the struggle for civil rights." King then went on a three-hour tour of Roxbury...
King will inspect schools and housing in Roxbury, address a joint session of the state legislature, and speak at a passive rally on the Boston Common. He will confer with Gov. John A. Volpe at the State House this morning and visit Mayor Collins tomorrow...
Four, the Gov department may not give enough importance to the behavioral approach, but its offerings are not predominantly "traditional," if one means by this either political philosophy or historical studies. Rather, they are on the side of empirical theory, i.e. the systematic analysis of political data, based on observation and aiming at valid general propositions. Obviously, history must be our raw material and our touchstone; and naturally, the issues raised by political philosophy of ten provide us with the questions our observation tries to answer, or even with the conceps with which we try to organize the results...