Word: options
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...option to take one out of the four courses pass-fail would leave students more time to do independent work or go out for extra-curricular activities, they claim. And, though they admit some students would take advantage of" the option, they feel that most would honestly benefit from...
Kerr himself did not lack for new things to do. Last week he was named by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching-to head a blue-ribbon study of higher education in the U.S., with the option of making it either a part-time or full-time job. As Kerr's interim successor, one of his longtime aides, Senior Vice President Harry Wellman, 66, stepped determinedly into the job of acting president. A member of the Cal faculty since 1925, Wellman holds a Berkeley Ph.D. in agricultural economics, is considered by the faculty a strong defender...
Oscar Robertson, NBA player representative, submitted the demands for a shorter exhibition season, pay for pre-season games, an improved pension plan, a guarantee that the present 81-game schedule won't be extended, and the right to play out an option in a contract...
Princeton introduced its pass-fail option to insulate undergraduates from bureaucratic pressures for grade-grubbing. It reduced by one the number of courses that are graded, so that a student could experiment with an unfamiliar subject within his normal program...
Should the College encourage this kind of undergraduate? It already gives him sufficient encouragement by admitting him. According to the Harvard Policy Committee's poll, 74 percent of Harvard undergraduates would take a fifth course on a pass-fail option. Seventy-four percent, then, need to be reeducated out of their high school habits. Harvard already has sufficient devices to impede this reeducation. Why add another? Josiah Lee Auspitz...