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Having completed half a year, I think that pass/fail relieves some of the pressures on a student and leaves more time for extracurricular activities. Second, I find that pass/fail encourages many new students to opt for the harder, more advanced courses -courses a student being graded might skip for slower-paced versions in which he was more likely...
...take an art course," says Northwestern's Baker, who thinks a student should be able to broaden his horizons without risking poor grades in subjects in which he has interest but perhaps little aptitude. In New York, City University Professor Philip Baumel goes even farther. "Most students usually opt for pass/fail for the right reasons," he insists. But Baumel, too, has noted a trend away from the new system: "There's a move now to say, 'Let's do it the conventional way.' " Asked to grade the system in its own terms, a growing number...
...subcompact that gets 20 m.p.g., his gas bill would be halved. The $450 difference could influence at least some more new-car buyers to opt for smaller autos...
...chemical byproduct of crude oil from which records are made. As a result of oil shortages, Columbia has been forced to suspend its $1.98 Harmony pop label; it also trimmed its November output by postponing several releases until 1974. In general, the industry will probably have to opt for greater selectivity in its releases-or, as Lieberson puts it, "an end to buckshotting-throwing everything against the wall to see what sticks...
...fact Simon, though reluctant to opt for rationing, seems genuinely to have an open mind on the subject. Right now the government is reassessing the size of the petroleum shortfall the U.S. will undergo this winter. Official projections of a 3.4 million-bbl.-a-day gap in the first three months of 1974 are based on so-called worst-case assumptions. These include a steady climb in demand, a cold winter and a cutback in Canadian oil exports to the U.S. So far, energy experts note, none of these dire fears have actually come true. In addition, gasless Sundays...