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...designate as B-all grades 65-68 Previously this was a C grade. This was done on the strength of the argument that the Law School is a graduate school, and it is well known in graduate school that B-is a rock bottom grade and C is tantamount to failure. The Harvard Law School 65 is not really as bad as all that. Now the suggestion is made that since in undergraduate schools a B-is sufficient for graduating Cum Laude, the same should hold true at the Law School. The practical effect of this suggestion would be that...
...that Americans have overmoralized public office. They tend to equate public greatness with private goodness, forgetting that a revered President like Abraham Lincoln suffered assorted psychosomatic ailments, that he was absentminded, and told jokes that made him seem callous. If private rectitude were tantamount to public usefulness, then Calvin Coolidge would be esteemed the greatest President...
...while, Harvard Summer School attracted a third group of students, as Wilkinson puts it, "a group of people who didn't know what to do with themselves in the summer." Attracted no doubt, by the name, many flocked to Cambridge, where plunking down the admission fee was once tantamount to acceptance at the Harvard Summer School...
Such confidence is justified. Inflation has reached the point where many Congressmen feel that a vote against the President will be tantamount to a vote for higher prices and interest rates. Says Mills: "The House rises and discharges its responsibilities when it has to, and this is an emergency...
...entire student community. The expressions of discontent run the gamut from a cultural "hippie" rebellion to extreme political radicalism. Politically concerned students brought up to trust their leaders and to expect good will and progress from them, have in the recent years undergone an experience which has been tantamount to the discovery of sin, the end of trust, and an overflow of guilt for having been acquiescent or "accomplices" for so long. As trust has waned, many students have been impelled to look to the University to provide that which church and state no longer seem to provide. The continuing...