Word: weight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...questions still to be considered, the most important is the proposal to reduce by half the weight given to generals, relative to course grades and the thesis, in determining the degree of honors. The present ratio for generals, grades, and thesis is 4:4:2. Following an HPC suggestion, generals have been shortened from eight to six hours...
...stage as another is hauled off to the side. (I assume that the interminable intermission waits at La Gioconda were due to the fact that the turntable had been broken the previous week, when the director of Antony and Cleopatra, Franco Zefferelli, loaded it with five times the weight it was designed to hold.) There are hardly any partial view seats in the new Met and the standees have padded arm rests...
...amongst those eligible--chiefly, the consistent Group II's--that in all cases, save those with straight A's to show, election is strongly dependent on two factors: one's friends in the Society, and/or among the Society's faculty advisers. As I understand it, faculty recommendations carry strong weight, and each member has "blackball" power over any candidate. It's hard to think of a system more prone to politicking, favoritism, and subjectivism of all sorts. It's also hard to think of a system which so actively discourages heterogeneity of interests among those it selects...
...believe that a PBK member from Harvard was necessarily a better student than one who was not a member. Under present conditions, this assumption is simply not true. Why not scrap this behind-the-scenes "hocuspocus" and determine election by objective means: by giving a certain weight to (1) the student's average, (2) his generals, and (3) his thesis--and nothing else. The highest 90 on such a scale should be elected. Those below would at least know why they were rejected. Inclusion of thesis and generals in the criteria would eliminate (1) grade-grubbers and (2) thesis-droppers...
...early 1960s, Way's problem was theoretically solved by the development of compact superconducting magnets, which, when cooled close to absolute zero ( - 460° F.), can produce intense magnetic fields. Such magnets, Way calculated, would take up no more than 20% of a submarine's weight while providing a magnetic field strong enough for propulsion...