Word: registrars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...buffoonery, but along the way it offers enough laughs to supply an entire season of canned TV comedies. The near-perfect performances of Jackson and Wallach-recreating their stage roles-are augmented by a parade of outstanding character actors. The funniest: Charles Nelson Reilly, as a clock-watching university registrar whose face is a festival of tics...
...scene might have been a Southern county courthouse in the bad old days, with a white registrar administering a literacy test designed to confound even the best-educated Negro. Actually, the setting was a U.S. Senate chamber, and the Negro was Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall, who seeks to vote not in a Southern election but as an As sociate Justice of the Supreme Court...
...selected opponent would not be told of the pass-fail designation, to ensure absolutely normal treatment of the G.U.T. less foe. The only change would be made by the sports registrar on the end-of-season won-lost record. The record would show that the team played such-and-such an opponent, but there would be no mention of the outcome...
...reported that Professor Robert Cook of Yale University has announced that he will automatically give all of the students in his course a grade of A. From your issue of February 9th, we learn that a proposal that instructors give only A's, or not report grades to the registrar, came before the Columbia faculty which tabled it. As I understand it, given the current international situation, the automatic giving of A's to students, hence-forth called the A-plan, is designed to eliminate various extraneous influences upon the educational process, viz. students unduly concentrating upon getting good grades...
...proposal to withhold class ranks came to the Columbia College faculty almost by accident. David B. Truman, Dean of the College, had called the meeting to consider a proposal that instructors give only A's or not report grades to the registrar as a form of non-cooperation with the Selective Service. But the faculty quickly tabled that resolution, and began its brief debate on the no-rank plan, drawn up by assistant professors James P. Shenton and Carl Hovde...