Word: options
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enterprise, with all its built-in advantages of business competition, should be given a second chance rather than a death sentence. They argue that the way to cut auto-insurance costs is to design a system that automatically compensates most victims regardless of fault, and still gives them the option of going to court to ask for more. Such mixed systems are already operating in several other countries, notably in Canada's Saskatchewan Province, where auto insurance costs two-thirds as much as identical coverage in adjoining North Dakota...
...curbs that departments are now writing suggest that every effort will be made to see that the pass-fail option is exercised by students who wish to take an especially hard elective without the risk of receiving a bad grade. It remains to be seen whether the option provides much incentive. It could turn out that graduate schools and just about everyone else will come to think of a "pass" as simply a euphemism for a bad mark, and that students will be advised to stay away from courses that they don't feel capable of taking for a letter...
Dean Ford said Wednesday that most departments are deciding to require concentrators to take "core curriculum" in their major with a grade. So the fourth-course pass-fail option which begins next fall will probably be available to most students only for what Ford called "real electives...
Ford and Edward T. Wilcox, Director of General Education, gave identical arguments for restricting the use of pass-fail: the purpose of the pass-fail option, both said, is to encourage a student to experiment with a course he might not otherwise take--therefore he shouldn't be allowed to waste the option on courses he is required to take anyway...
...Other colleges with pass-fail programs found students using them to ease-off requirements, and here that could easily mean that not until their senior year would some students take a free option," Wilcox said yesterday...