Word: grades
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have sent to the White House a remarkable assortment of gifts to mark the Bicentennial in personal, imaginative and warmly affectionate ways. More than 700 presents have arrived, ranging from expensive objets d'art crafted by professionals to projects lovingly sewn, knitted, hammered or stuck together by grade-school classes. The White House has made no attempt to encourage, or even publicize this totally spontaneous patriotic happening...
...origins of the nuclear bomb project date back to Israel's birth. Atomic scientists were encouraged by Chaim Weizmann, Israel's first President and a chemist of international repute. Israeli nuclear experts produced low-grade uranium from phosphate in the Negev and developed an efficient technique for producing heavy water. In 1953, Israel, in exchange for these processes, was allowed to study France's nuclear program and participate in its Sahara tests. Four years later, France gave Israel its first nuclear reactor. Later, the French also helped with the design of Israel's Dimona Atomic Research Community in the Negev...
Other options Pipkin said the committee will consider include requiring a minimum grade-point average in courses outside concentrations and returning to the old standard, which required that students get honors grades in two-thirds of their non-concentration letter-graded courses...
...seems most likely to me that we'll go to a fixed number of courses or a grade point average," Pipkin said, because with the earlier two-third option "you can take a large number of courses within your concentration requirements and a lot of pass-fail, so that you end up only needing two-thirds of four...
While you're about it, would you say whether you think a condition of grade inflation exists at Harvard, and if so, what you think should be done to remedy it? Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr. '53 Professor of Government