Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...College Studies and to locate a willing Faculty advisor, deserve the benefits of Independent Study; non-honors students are not to be trusted without the regimen of course structure and grades. But since the Harvard curriculum is sprinkled with guts which can be passed on two nights work, the idea that grades effectively keep slackers in line is fanciful...
...chief engineer of this modest student power coup is Norr, who has worked on pass-fail through every phase of its tangled history. He was a member of the 1966-67 HPC which hit upon the idea one spring afternoon of combining its desire for a free fifth course and pass-fail into one package proposal...
...pass-fail plan never appealed to Norr or Riesman, then one of the three Faculty HPC members. They argued that it was little more than a dressed up form of auditing and would put psychological pressure on students to increase their course load to five. Norr toyed with the idea of filing a minority report to the CEP. But the HPC traditionally hammers out its differences in closed meetings and then presents a united front when it arrives at a recommendation. So Norr decided to give no hint of the HPC's internal dissension...
...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...
...astound President Johnson. For Mr. Dirksen is at least as consistent a party booster as he is a leader of Congressional reactionaries on foreign policy. Mr. Johnson should realize, however, that the hawkish wing of the G.O.P.--epitomized by the snake-haired Illinoisan--is seriously tinkering with the idea of proclaiming their candidate, most likely Richard Nixon, an apostle of peace as a 1968 election maneuver...