Word: passing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Academic procession will begin at about 9:15 a.m. when Governor John A. Volpe arrives with his scarlet-coated escort at Massachusetts Hall Gate. The procession will pass through lines of neatly drawn up Seniors outside University Hall, led by William G. Anderson '39, University Marshall, the Sheriffs of Middlesex and Suffolk Counties, President Pusey, and the Fellows and the Overseers...
...article in The Art Journal Coolidge assigned some rather large responsibilities to this community of scholars. He wrote that because the church, the court, and the legislature no longer command influence in molding opinion, the university has become a "tribunal of intellectual appeal," and the university art museum must pass judgment on aesthetic ideals...
...weight on any given issue. The sources of substantive power--the Administration and Faculty members--are accessible to students with only a few exceptions. Black students this spring have obtained a new field of concentration in Afro-American studies; the Harvard Policy Committee has successfully promoted a fourth-course pass-fail plan, an extension of the independent study program, a reduction in the language department, and an elimination of the junior general examinations in History; an ad hoc committee issued a report recommending weekday parietal extensions from 2 p.m. to midnight and had the plan approved...
RECREATION: Put into your Thirteenth Floor Elevator earphones, sit crosslegged on the floor, take a puff enjoy the stuff, write a rhyme to pass the time, make a movie or something groovie...
Changes of this nature--coupled with the increase in informal instruction through Independent studies, seminars and fourth-course pass-failing programs--might seem to indicate the Ford has radically new ides on College teaching methods. He is basically, however, a traditionalist. He believes in the value of systematic, highly organized instruction and the lecture system. Ford once described his idea of Harvard development as a process of "doing more of some things without doing less of others." This philosophy seeks to take into account a diverse student body, and it also applies to course offerings, fields of concentration, Faculty chairs...