Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...seems clear to me that a disinterested reading of the faculty resolution gives students choices which they have been denied in many courses. Surely the spirit of the resolution is clear: it requires the faculty to evaluate students on the work they have done so far. If the student has two B's. he gets a B. If a D and a B. he gets a C, or a pass. It he requests a pass. he gets it (unless he is part of what must be a tiny group of Harvard students who fail courses). The resolution does...
...then. the spirit of the resolution is tolerably clear, it is also clear that many faculty members have chosen to ignore it. This, of course, is part of a Harvard tradition of respect for individual professional judgments, but it makes the business of faculty resolutions seem a rather silly gesture. Certainly intellectual clarity, if nothing else, would be served if those who have so chosen would frankly announce that they are ignoring the faculty resolution.Teaching Fellow in English
James Q. Wlison, professor of Government, denied that there had been any spirit of compromise or bargaining in the Faculty Council's deliberations. "Disciplinary actions are handed out for behavior, regardless of the ideological view." he said...
This year's lacrosse captain. Bruce Regan, was awarded both the Class of '59 Award for hustle and spirit and the ground ball award for scooping up the most ground balls during the season Regan, All-Ivy and honorable mention All-American as a midfielder last spring, won the ground ball prize for the second year...
...also prevented the vegetative decay which afflicts so many old artists. The man who has known and worked with almost every major artist in this country, has lived in Los Angeles with Huxley, Isherwood, Mann, and Schocnberg, and seen all but Isherwood pass away, is essentially a happy spirit...