Word: linford
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seymour Melman, industrial engineering professor at Columbia, has proposed that teachers give A's to all their students to avoid such choices. His Columbia colleague, Henry Linford, chemical engineering professor, retorted that "You can't botch up our educational system just to circumvent a Government order," and Dean David Truman calls overgrading a "violation of intellectual trust." Some students concede that they will choose easy courses to keep their grades high. An advertisement in the University of Michigan Daily urged coeds to muff their exams so the men could rank higher...