Word: bennington
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Grades at Bennington are kept only for graduate school references, without even the cryptic sort of communication to students Reed may employ. Written reports and weekly meetings with a counselor tell students of their progress...
...small colleges, Reed (570 students) and Bennington (309 students), grades are kept but not communicated to the students. Reed students do not learn grades unless some of their work is unsatisfactory, in which case they are told C or above is "satisfactory," C- is "barely satisfactory," D is "barely passing," and F is "failing," telling the students in words, not letters. Students and instructors confer regularly about the course work, and Reed avoids public recognition in the form of Dean's Lists, prizes...
What Swarthmore, and to a lesser extent Reed and Bennington, have done is to demonstrate that an American college student is capable of excellent work without constant pressure from grades. Most educational institutions in the country do not recognize this...
...Helen Frankenthaler. 28, well-to-do Bennington College graduate ('49), a standout exhibitor in all three shows who ranks high with the elder Abstract Expressionists as one of the few painters to follow in their wake, manages to give her intensely lyric, free-flow paintings a recognizably personal stamp. Up to using anything from a paint pot to her foot to gain her effects, she occasionally relaxes by switching to a meticulous landscape or realistic self-portrait. Says Painter Frankenthaler of her abstract work, "I just start to see what happens. You want clues? There are no clues...
Author Nemerov teaches at Bennington and writes books, of which this is his sixth. Three have been poetry. He draws his settings and characters from the small college campus, using two alumni, two professors, two students, and a president to keep his story going. There are, of course, a few touches of Cambridge, including some remarks about green bookbags...