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...Undergraduate Education [CUE] and the Faculty Council were sympathetic to the purpose of that requirement, but hesitated to create a system that requires the allocation of courses to areas after the General Education fields disappear." Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education and chief author of the new legislation Steven E. Ozment wrote in a report to the Faculty last week...
...making. Three years ago, a proposal by then Dean for Undergraduate Education Sidney Verba '53 was blocked on the floor of a Faculty meeting. The Faculty" returned the proposal to the CUE for further study. The issue of reform seemed destined to languish in a bureaucratic twilight zone until Ozment entered University Hall in September and revived the cause...
...again this year, most of the debate centered on the merits of a so-called mercy clause allowing students to discard a few of their lowest grades. Neither the Verba plan nor the successful Ozment plan included such a provision...
More Harvard undergraduates receive honors partly because 80 percent choose to undertake the tutorials and theses required of honors candidates, Ozment said. Maybe more are honors caliber to begin with. "Students who come to us as the pick of the crop across the nation tend to remain such after four years at Harvard's," the dean observed, Somewhat more dubiously. Ozment also argued that raising standards could be self-defeating become it, would increase the already substantial pressure on professors and teaching fellows to inflate undergraduates grades...
Three years after an almost indistinguishable proposal met overwhelming opposition in the faculty chamber, only half a dozen professors rose to challenge Ozment's logic. His idea's time had come...