Word: classe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Quincy immediately set to work to "improve" the students. One of his first "reforms" was the establishment of a new marking system, the Scale of Merit. This system sought to place students in their proper academic positions with mathematical certainty: 8 points for attending class, a loss of 16 points for missing Sunday chapel, etc. Quincy himself took Puritanic glee in toting up the figures weekly. The Scale of Merit, however, proved a dismal failure, for it placed a premium upon attendance and not upon learning. Perhaps the system fitted well with Quincy's preconceptions of the ideal college course...
...Josiah took what he thought was the sensible course. On May 29th, he dismissed the entire sophomore class, and made the stunning announcement that criminal prosecution would be instituted against the window-breakers. Then, hell broke loose. More windows were smashed, Quincy was hanged in effigy, handwriting appeared on the wall in the chapel saying "A Bone for Old Quin to Pick," and the flag of rebellion flew over Holworthy. Quincy himself testified for three days before the Concord grand jury, the only three times he missed morning prayers while at Harvard...
...beat plays; and this summer was no exception. The company kicked off with Goodrich & Hackett's The Great Big Doorstep, and followed it with two of Eugene Ionesco's avant-garde one-acters: The Lesson; and Jack, or the Submission. Neither of the last two is in a class with Ionesco's The Chairs; but both are intriguing if too drawn out dramatizations of his thesis that people just cannot communicate sufficiently through language. Jack was more imaginatively staged here than the New York production last year...
...What is your age? 17-18: 70; 19: 87; 20: 72; 21: 65; 22-23: 15. College class? 1959: 61; '60: 70; '61: 75; '62: 89. Field of concentration? Humanities: 90; Social Science: 108; Natural Science: about...
Unexpected response from the Class of '63 has left the Freshman Seminar Program with nearly twice as many applicants as there are places to be filled, the Office of Advanced Standing confirmed yesterday. As a result, said Edward T. Wilcox, Director of the Office, which administers the Program, the capacity of each of the workshops may be stretched to accept more members than were anticipated in the "catalogue" mailed to freshmen at the end of August...