Word: option
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tough measures, Wilson has not succeeded in restoring sterling to a strong, buoyant position. As a result, the talk in Britain among politicians and economists has turned increasingly toward devaluation of the pound as the only option left to Wilson if sterling comes under another severe attack...
Television rediscovered him and made him a star for the third time-but the tube soon drained him dry. NBC dropped his option, and at 67 the boy with the funny hats was the old man with the funny scrapbooks. In 1956 his son Keenan advised him to try playing character parts. But the old man wasn't buying. "He just didn't want to get out of those funny clothes he'd been wearing for 50 years," recalls Keenan. "He'd say, 'Oh, I couldn't do that to my public...
...Board of Tutors also recommended that honors seniors be given the option of taking a seminar and writing a 30-page paper in lieu of the thesis. This plan would radically change the character of the honors program, and much opposition is expected. It can be defended on the grounds that writing a thesis is basically preparation for an academic career, although not all honors students expect to--or ought to--become professional historians. But the burden of proof still lies with the plan's proponents: they must show that the seminars will be of high enough quality...
...Skiddy Von Stade Jr. '38, Dean of Freshmen, called the plan "well worth considering" -- "it could encourage people to look outside their fields to find genuine electives," he said. The HPC's rationale for the pass-fail option was that it would allow people to take courses that interested them without taking too much time from courses in their field and without having to compete with concentrators for grades...
...grubbing and not enough learning in the present system," Rustam Z. Kothavala, Allston Burr Senior Tutor in Lowell House, agreed. Kothavala, one of the three Faculty members on the HPC, said that he was "fully in favor of the proposal," and thought that the combination of the pass-fail option with the fifth course would ensure that "people don't use it for roulette...