Word: springly
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Thirty-seven MOT courses were introduced this fall, and students signed up for them eagerly. There will be two dozen more in the spring. A student-faculty committee oversees the program...
Morcover, when he was done last spring, the University had committed itself to recruiting more black students, and to phasing out Brown's ROTC units: Magaziner played a key role in the negotiations between Brown's administrator and its blacks, and helped lead a student anti-ROTC sit-in at a meeting of the executive committee of the Brown Corporation. He also led several hundred members of last year's graduating class in turning their backs on Henry A. Kissinger '50, President Nixon's Assistant for National. Security Affairs. Kissinger was receiving an honorary degree; the gesture, Magaziner said...
...group did not finish its work that spring, but the effort did not stop at the end of the term. Dean Eckelmann found $800 to support Magaziner during the summer of 1967 as he worked at rewriting and duplicating parts of what he modestly called "A Draft of a Working Paper for Education at Brown University...
...Grades are not only inconsistent with the aims of education, but are actually harmful to the individual." Magaziner wrote last spring. "They encourage a mechanical kind of learning . . . act as artificial goals and become ends in themselves, discouraging student's from developing their own values." Furthermore, he found, "they are not even accurate, except in predicting grade-getting ability." He concluded that grades served only to sort students for future careers as professional or graduate students...
...February, 1968. David Riesman, Harvard's Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences, would later call it "a Herculean effort, an impressive document." But few members of the faculty took notice. The special faculty sub-committee appointed by President Heffner met twice a week during much of the spring, but made no recommendations. In April, the Brown Daily Herald reported that the "vast majority of the faculty was unaware" of the report...