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...their pell-mell and sometimes unseemly rush to ensure harmony on campus, many college administrators agreed to institute some form of pass/fail grading. By 1971 an estimated three-quarters of the nation's colleges and universities were offering alternatives to traditional marking systems. Eager to ride the professional bandwagon, a number of high schools and grade schools were quick to follow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Downgrading No-Grade | 2/4/1974 | See Source »

With a new junta in power, Greece is still in the news and the clamour goes on in the United States. After the overthrow of the Papadopoulos regime, Senators Henry Jackson (D-Wash.) and Clairborne Pell (D-R.I.) introduced a bill in the Senate: "To prohibit all military assistance to Greece until it is determined that Greece is fulfilling its obligations under the North Atlantic Treaty...

Author: By Efthimios O. Vidalis, | Title: 'The Tanks Have Turned Their Guns on Your Children' | 12/17/1973 | See Source »

...President could resign or be impeached. Suddenly, leisurely hearings were a luxury that the Congress-and the nation-could not afford. Last week there was a sharp crackle of urgency in the air when the Senate Rules Committee began meeting on Ford's confirmation. Said Senator Claiborne Pell: "I believe we all realize that the nominee of today may not only be the Vice President of tomorrow, but the President of next year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VICE PRESIDENCY: A Rush to Judgment on Gerald Ford | 11/12/1973 | See Source »

...Harvard goes, so goes the Army ROTC program," Col. R.H. Pell, former professor of Military Science and commanding officer of Harvard Army ROTC, wrote in a 1969 memo to the Faculty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Survey of ROTC's Status in the Ivies | 9/28/1973 | See Source »

...academic credit from all ROTC courses. The SFAC resolution made no mention of the possibility of according extracurricular status to ROTC, a move supported by the Corporation. And at that time Franklin L. Ford, then dean of the Faculty, declined speculation on ROTC's future at Harvard. But Col. Pell said that the Faculty's decision "would ultimately drive ROTC from the campus...

Author: By Robin Freedberg, | Title: What Did Happen: 1969 | 9/17/1973 | See Source »

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