Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nonimaginative" and "noninnovative." We who have watched his work can testify to the imaginativeness and innovativeness in his approach to criminal justice and to his concern for the individual. This is clear enough from his opinions, but is striking in the work he has done to help reform the standards of criminal justice through a major A.B.A. committee...
...example, reject all such rational formulations. Negroes know that agitation in the '50s and '60s has prompted more progress than did reasoned argument. Test cases frequently come from broken laws. At many universities in the past two years, it was clear that authorities agreed to reforms after, rather than before, upheavals. Thus it should not be surprising that the alienated young occasionally carry this approach to irrational extremes, ignoring that point on the violence scale where protest evokes reaction and repression, not reform...
...School committee that had been investigating grade reform finally released a tentative report. It recommended that the school reduce the importance of first-year exams and that it offer first-year students the option of being graded pass-fail...
...Faculty approved the long-awaited grade reform plan. The new plan gave first year students the choice of three different grading systems--pass-fail, high satisfactory-low-fail, of the old system of nine letter grades...
March 27: The Law School's committee investigating grade reform said that there was virtually no chance that a pass-fail system could be started by next Fall. Students replied by calling the committee report "insulting, inane, and frivolous...