Word: reliefer
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...soliciting effort (though they are clearly important since no one appears to regard the right to audit as a suitable substitute for a pass-fail fourth course); rather, this is an inevitable result of the pressure to achieve grades created externally from the use of grade averages, the relief of which is the accepted motive, and rightly so, for the current proposal. Moreover, this concentration in efforts by students to three courses will almost surely be accompanied by an implicit reinterpretation by the faculty of what constitutes the requirements for a course; the faculty almost surely will fairly quickly adjust...
...their relief, they have been proved wrong. Rey may lack the imperious stubbornness that brought Hallstein to grief, but he has firmly established himself as master of his house. By delegating more authority than Hallstein, he has transformed the once dispirited commission that serves as the Common Market's Cabinet into a sound and cohesive team. He has repaired the disarray left by Hallstein's pitched battles with De Gaulle, showing that he is willing to compromise with the French without kowtowing to them. Through it all, with a judicious mixture of courage and pragmatism, he has revivified...
...Hepburn's proper genre is comedy; it is Tracy for whom this dreary picture should be seen: a face crammed with hills and valleys, a veritable relief map of the United States...
With understandable relief and considerable pride, Pusey last week announced the results of his two most recent dean hunts. Succeeding Griswold at the Law School is Derek Curtis Bok, 37, son of a former Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice, an authority on labor law and a member of the university's faculty since 1958. Co-author (with Harvard's Archibald Cox) of the classic textbook on labor law, Bok has had experience as a strike mediator and is well liked by his students, who consider him less frostily distant than Griswold. Heading the Divinity School is Stockholm-born Krister...
...happens, Pusey's relief at finding two new deans was short-lived. With the resignation last week of John Coolidge as director of Harvard's Fogg Art Museum, he must get back on the telephone, scan the country, solicit letters of recommendation for a man to head the country's best university museum...