Word: normalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...terms are modest. It would do nothing to change the number of graded courses needed for graduation; it would apply the pass-fail principle only to work done beyond the normal course load. This means the proposal cannot possibly be interpreted as offering people a chance to get away with less work. In fact, it is just what it advertises itself to be: an encouragement to flexibility in an otherwise specialized, competitive college program...
...pass-fail idea was attached to a fifth course, rather than to one of the normal four, because of the opportunities for ungraded credit (freshmen seminars, independent study, tutorial) that now exist. Other Ivy League schools which have experimented with pass-fail have five-course loads...
When one below-average student tries to teach another, both improve far more than they would under normal schooling conditions. So at least has been the experience of Manhattan's antipoverty Mobilization for Youth program, which three years ago set up a "homework helpers" project that paired high school students as after-hours reading tutors with academically backward grade-school children, most of them Negroes and Puerto Ricans from the city's depressed Lower East Side. Since top students could not always be found as "role models" who might inspire the younger children to greater industry, M.F.Y...
Another of the additions this year is meat. The smallest quantity sold is 30 lbs. of stewing beef, but prices are 30% to 40% below normal. Thus the customer has a powerful incentive to buy a freezer-which Neckermann supplies for $100 in cash or $4.50 a month...
...spectacle is like a ten-ton mouse: who needs it? A live one is a miracle, and the public will pay plenty for a peek. A dead one stinks so loud nobody will go near it. Most spectacles these days are born dead. Hawaii, as it happens, is a normal, lively, fairly intelligent ten-ton mouse...