Word: passe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Derek C. Bok, dean of the Law School, appointed a committee headed by Robert E. Keeton, professor of Law, to investigate the School's grading system. That committee's report, approved by the faculty, gave each first-year student the option of having his grades reported simply as pass or fail, in four categories, or in the standard nine-category system...
When the time came for the 538 first-year students to decide how they (as well as employers receiving transcripts) would receive their grades, 179 chose pass-fail, 75 chose the four-level system and the rest stayed with the nine categories. Even those who chose pass-fail may elect later to receive their grades again, this time in four or nine categories...
Some members of this first-year class fear the faculty will try to return to conventional grading. And they're not even happy with last spring's compromise. First-year student Ed Berlin said, "The system today is inadequate incorporating the evils both of pass-fail and of regular grades...
Sophomore Bob Seals was the first to pass Joseph, but classmate Mike Koerner, who won the freshman meet with Northeastern last year, was right with him. Koerner soon moved out in front and led by 50 yards at the three-mile point...
...going loud and strong. It always went loud and strong. Television is an immensely important fact for mental hospitals. It provides an automatic something-to-do. If I'm just wandering around the ward or coming back from supper or from the bathroom, I'll have to pass the TV and since it provides constant change and because it's something that is acceptable to sit in front of while doing nothing it is tremendously attractive. You can almost fool yourself into thinking that you're watching TV. But really watching implies participation which means activity. And activity, as opposed...