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...Vague Generalities are anathema, sparkling chips of concrete scattered throughout your bluebook will have you up for sainthood. Or at least Dean??s List. Name at least the titles of every other book Hume wrote; don’t just say Medieval cathedrals, name nine. Think up a few specific examples of “contemporary decadence,” like Natalie Wood. If you can’t come up with titles, try a few sharp metaphors of your own; they at least have the solid clink of pseudo-facts...
...like to thank Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 for providing the graph that accompanied his article on grade inflation (Opinion, “The Racial Theory of Grade Inflation,” April 23). The graph, showing the percentage of students on the Dean??s List from 1921 until now, supports my argument rather than his, and my concern rather than his ho-hum attitude on the matter...
...graph shows that grades leaped upward remarkably in the late 1960s to 1970. They then remained at this extraordinarily high level and in the last 15 years have gone still higher. Can you believe a University with what looks like 90 percent of its students on the Dean??s List...
...certainly notable that those on the Dean??s List went from 20 percent to 40 percent from 1920 to 1960—a doubling. But then there was another doubling from 1960 to 1970—only 10 years! And instead of falling, grades remained high and are still going higher. Lewis’s attempt to reduce this pattern to an average rise over the whole period from 1920 is laughably misleading...
...causes of grade inflation, I have given my view. The Dean??s own comments about 1970, the year of the greatest increase, suggest that two of the reasons I suggested, Faculty reaction to the Vietnam War and support of affirmative action, were indeed significant. What is the Dean??s explanation for why grades once inflated remain so high and continue to climb...