Word: systemization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...staff of Soc Sci 125--a course on "The American Economy: Conflict and Power"--petitioned the CEP for a hearing on the role of grades in their course and at Harvard in general. The Soc Sci 125 petition said that the grading system was "abhorrent," that it created "an undesirable reward structure," and that it promoted an authoritarian relation between students and teachers...
...group of first year Law students, unhappy with the school's academic arrangements and especially its grading system, began a movement to change the grade system. They circulated a petition asking for a number of reforms, including replacing letter grades with pass-fail grades for first-year students...
February 27: Law School dean Derek C. Bok appointed a special committee of Law School professors to study a student plan for overhauling the school's grading system. The students who drew up the plan said they were uneasy about how much opportunity they would have to participate in the committee's study...
...Committee on Houses and the Ad Board worked out a system for handling first-time parietal violations in the Houses instead of bringing them before the Ad Board. Dean Glimp said the plan was "a way to get to know your senior tutor...
March 6: A group of non-students led by a former Columbia grad student named King Collins disrupted a Harvard class. Collins and his band interrupted Alex Inkeles' lecture in Soc Rel 153 and demanded that Inkeles have a "dialogue" with them on the "repressive nature of the lecture system...