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This plan would abolish formal grades for graduate students. The marking system has always been unsatisfactory, Elder pointed out, since in most cases it provides only a comparison with other students in a course...
...Abolish Grades...
Four decades after Woodrow Wilson tried unsuccessfully to abolish the club system, Princeton may be moving toward a new residential plan which will incorporate the major features of Yale's Colleges and Harvard's Houses in its own cloistered tradition...
When 605 Princeton sophomores signed the petition in 1949. they seemed to be striking a blow for democracy. For years Princeton's 17 private eating clubs, which President Woodrow Wilson tried to abolish, had been taking in the most desirable sophomores and leaving a small, unwanted minority out in the cold. Unless, said the '49 petition, the clubs made sure that every single man got at least one invitation during the annual bicker (bidding), no sophomores would join a club at all. The petition carried the day: the permanent 100% bicker had come to Princeton at last...
Journal, "that in the universal push to abolish illiteracy, we may create the phenomenon of literates illiterate in every higher sense...