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...because it allowed department discretition in determining who might be excluded from tutorial through failure to satisfy rock-bottom criteria. The method of liberalizing the cum loud degree suggested here would permit like discretion--although in this case the Faculty should add the explicit enjoinder that the departments be lenient and flexible in judging a student's plea for release from the thesis. Again, practices would doubtless be "arbitrary" and would differ considerably among the departments--just as some fields cheerfully accepted the spirit of the tutorial plan whole, and others barely admitted its existence. But the Gill history...
...since they work closely with thesis-writing seniors. Rather than simply adopt a proposal that would allow students to get out of theses and remain candidates for Honors, it would be wiser to ask the departments to hand down recommendations when cases arise and to urge them to be lenient in their decisions...
Voting Requirements Lenient...
...course, and exemptions are granted only upon petition to the CEP. Until the mid 50's nearly all of these exemptions went to elementary language courses, courses in composition, or courses with a large amount of laboratory work. Since that time, however, the CEP has become more and more lenient with its dispensations. The number of petitions has increased correspondingly. In the spring of 1953 there were 19 requests to substitute papers or other alternatives for the standard final; last year this figure had risen to 51. Moreover, in 1953 only about a sixth of the exempted courses were...
...accomplices. But Tixier made a brilliant plea. He emphasized that no one had been killed. Why, then, should Manoury die when Salan, who was responsible "for 1,800 murders, 4,700 people wounded, and 12,000 armed attacks," got only life imprisonment? He recalled that France has traditionally been lenient toward political assassins since the public revulsion over the fate of Damiens, Louis XV's valet, who was tortured and killed after grazing his master with a knife during an unsuccessful attempt on his life...