Word: toughens
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While the CUE changes are complicated, the thrust of the proposal is to simplify the current labyrinthian requirements, mostly by taking all of a students courses into account, not just the two thirds of non-departmental courses now under consideration. They also toughen the honors rules in a number of other ways...
Finally, while the general move to toughen and simplify the requirements is well-founded, it does not go far enough. Making a B-minus the ground-floor requirement for a cum laude degree is almost meaningless because the vast majority of grades in courses of Harvard are B-minus or better anyway. The Faculty would be well-advised to up the minimum average grade for an honors degree to at least a B. If should also be prepared to bend these grade requirements for those students who write exceptional senior theses, often the most significant academic experience in an undergraduate...
...president of Harvard is always in a unique position to exert leadership, and he has certainly done that," says Robert Atwell, acting director of the American Council on Education, who gives Bok special credit for his work in pushing the NCAA to toughen academic standards for student athletes. "For him to do that is really an act of citizenship, because Harvard doesn't have any of these problems...
...efforts to pick a new dean of the Faculty, President Bok this year renewed his fight against big-time collegiate athletics, though not as successfully as he had in the previous year. As chairman of a committee of college presidents, Bok led a drive last year to toughen the academic standards required of athletes to be eligible for intercollegiate competition...
...such recogntion the icewomen had to face a tough competition along the way. To toughen the team and prove his squad's prowess. Harvard Coach John Dooley plotted a killer campaign for his charges. "It's one heck of a schedule," he remarked at the beginning of the season...