Word: systemization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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December 19: John Kenneth Galbraith, writing in the Harvard Alumni Bulletin, said that Harvard's system of businessman-dominated governing boards was an anachronism. The members of the Corporation have little contact with Faculty and students and don't even serve their old purpose of protecting the University from outside "witch-hunters," Galbraith said...
...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...
...committee investigating Faculty misconduct devised a system for processing complaints against Corporation appointees. The Committee said it would send letters to Faculty members accused of misconduct and then let the accused people explain their action to the committee...
During the first six years of this decade, for example, the Corporation voted degrees to the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, the head of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the head of the Federal Reserve System, the head of the Agency for International Development, the secretary-general of NATO, and three presidents of Latin American nations. During the same period, no degrees were granted to Negroes. (In 1967, Harvard did grant a degree to the Negro President of Morehouse College and in 1968 honored Whitney Young...
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...