Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...span is 21 years shorter than their fellow citizens'. Their unemployment rate is nearly 40%, ten times the national average. Some 50,000 American Indian families live in miser able huts, shanties, tents, abandoned cars. Half of their children never finish high school. Their sickness, illiteracy and poverty rank among America's worst. Their sad estate last week moved President Johnson to declare in a message to Congress: "No enlightened nation, no responsible government, no progressive people can permit this shocking situation to continue...
...RANK list standing is not a sensible criterion for screening the kind of Independent Studies being done now. A lower rank list student who may be unhappy with formal course structures and no dullard, should be allowed to take an Independent Study if he has the ingenuity and initiative to set one up. Similarly, there is no reason to close off the benefits of the program to sophomores; Independent Study might liven up this year, whose sluggishness is legendary. The CEP should also make the signature of the sponsor and perhaps of a senior official in that department enough authorization...
Controls have a place in the Independent Study program, and the three changes the CEP is considering would still leave a mechanism for Faculty members to guide students away from blind alleys. It is time though for the Faculty to jetison artificial standards like college year and rank in class. The limits on Independent Study should be the ability of students to think up good projects and the willingness of individual Faculty members to supervise them...
...Gulf of Tonkin? "It was," deadpanned McCarthy, "a dark and moonless night." That climactic note, 3½ years after the encounter that overtly set the stage for the all-out U.S. involvement in Viet Nam, was one of the few certitudes about an incident that seems destined to rank in history with such hoary whodunits as the War of Jenkins...
...less dramatic change, if on a lesser basis, has been wrought at Harvard. This year, for the first time in its history. Harvard has a handful of long distance runners who rank among the best in the country. Harvard runners have recorded times in the mile and two-mile that are easily among the 10 fastest collegiate performances this year. A Harvard relay team has to its credit the season's fastest two-mile relay time in the nation on an 11-lap track...