Word: uncleared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Master Bruce Chalmers of Winthrop House, a Faculty member of the committee, upheld Ford's analysis. But another Faculty member, who asked to remain unidentified, said, "There are two possible interpretations of the terms of probation: either one thinks they are sufficiently unclear to determine ineligibility for this committee or one thinks they clearly prohibit admittance but may want to see this position waived in this particular case. However, this committee does not have the legal competence to do any more than make recommendations to the Faculty...
Although it is unclear what changes will be made, the present requirement was under attack from both sides yesterday. Ford said that the requirement has emotional appeal for many faculty members as part of the cultural exposure students are expected to get here. But others, Ford said, can see no reason to single out language instruction...
...openly support the administration's policy toward Vietnam, to qualify for boycott? It seems strange to exclude them; but again the line would be hard to draw for those who neither wholly support the conduct or the war nor are wholly committed to one drastic alternative. (It is unclear to me on which side of the line Professor Galbraith would be placed...
...still unclear when Robert S. McNamara will step down as Secretary of Defense, why he is leaving the Pentagon for the World Bank, and whether it was McNamara or President Johnson who made the actual decision to transfer jobs...
Whether the laissez-faire nature of the CEP proposal will seriously limit the number of students able to use pass-fail, or the number of courses they can use it in, remains unclear. It is certainly possible that fourth-course pass-fail will become a near-universal practice without the CEP or the Faculty specifying that it should be. But it would be a mistake for the Faculty to ratify pass-fail with no idea of its effect...