Word: permitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kishi is a Japanese leader of whom the U.S. is going to be hearing a lot. A staunch conservative, he is the first postwar Japanese Premier whose political record (which includes a three-year stretch in Tokyo's Sugamo Prison as a war criminal) does not permit his opponents to accuse him of being a puppet...
Since the days of President Eliot, Harvard administrators have debated and rejected proposals to change the undergraduate program from four years to three, and revise College education to permit more rapid graduations. As the Program for Harvard College gathers momentum, the same problems of growing educational needs, and the old solution of revising the curriculum, again assume importance...
...case, the graduate and undergraduate schools are closely intertwined; both have the same faculty, both use more or less the same libraries and laboratories. Any program providing for a marked expansion of one would probably also permit a parallel expansion in the other. But Dean Elder and many others would oppose any increase in graduate enrollment that would break sharply the present proportion of size between the GSAS and Harvard College. If the College is able to expand 15 to 20 per cent, the graduate school could probably grow a similar amount, but no more...
Harvard's emphasis on grades can show worst in final examinations. Finals can and should be educational tools in themselves, but now they tend to deemphasize memory, and a certain amount of vaguely knowledgeable generalization. Questions which amount only to identifications, either of terms or places, or which permit an A answer based only on general information typify this pointless approach...
This is the argument for throwing out grades entirely, at some point in a man's college career. Various schemes have been advanced which would permit seniors to use the College as they choose, fulfilling only thesis and general examination requirements. Others argue for a more gradual development of this independence, beginning it in the junior year...