Word: blacklow
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...grades, formally adopted at the Medical Faculty's December meeting will encourage the faculty members to make more extensive comments on students, Robert S. Blacklow '55, Assistant dean of the Faculty of Medicine, said yesterday. He said that both the faculty and students' agreed upon the importance of more than a simple letter of word in evaluating a students work...
...Blacklow said the faculty felt that there was a need to recognize excellence while eliminating the quality in the present system where some courses are taught on the satisfactory incomplete basis while others are graded in the traditional manner...
...medical faculty has been discussing a new system of grades since last May. Blacklow said that the students made their own proposal earlier this year which was not adopted. A student faculty committee was later formed which devised the new system...
...Blacklow said that while the system is neither what the students of faculty wanted it is a compromise and he expressed confidence in its operation...
Characterizing the grading controversy as nor that is common to all faculties and schools. Blacklow pointed to the fact that internship committees are looking for slightly different qualities than college admission committees, since an intern is a practicing doctor and not actually a student. More extensive evaluations than a letter grade, therefore, are more important for medical students, Blacklow said. Yale Medical School has not given grades for a number of years, he added...