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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Alden's goal to "shape a university that's in touch with the real world." He has brought an impressive list of guest speakers to the campus, ranging from President Johnson, who spoke there on a war-on-poverty tour in May 1964, to the late Protestant theologian Paul Tillich. The university's select "Ohio Fellows," 30 members of each class chosen for their potential as future public leaders, have been able to quiz such officials as Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas. Alden has also defended the right...
Serious Problem. A three-year pilot program in Chicago developed into a permanent "Family Living Center" last year, is expanding two more locations this year and, as one official puts it, "Even our waiting list has a waiting list." Most of the centers serve areas with a high Negro school population, although teen-age pregnancy is certainly not confined to Negro neighborhoods, and is a serious problem in white society as well...
...Committee on Educational Policy has proposed changes in Harvard's rank list system which would sacrifice a reasonable attitude on grades for well-intentioned but meaningless precision...
...system now in use does not consider pluses or minuses in determining rank list, and the CEP argues that this may unfairly penaize some students. Since a B+ receives no more weight than a B-, a student with three B+'s and one C+ is assigned to Group IV while someone with four B--'s winds up in Group...
...hard to be concerned about this inequity in the grading system because a student's rank really has only minimal importance. In determining admission to Dean's List and such programs as Honors Tutorial a student's rank group is consulted, but most departments are flexible enough to admit students to Tutorial who fall a fraction of a grade short of the required level...