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...primary factors in Lowell's advocacy of fields of concentration to replace free electives, and there appears to be no specific disaffection with competition now. When grades present individual psychological problems, the College will offer advice, and psychiatric help if necessary, but it will scarcely discard an entire educational framework to solve problems it considers essentially personal. Any change must come because teachers, and even students, feel that more will be learned without grades, but not because of current psychiatric evidence...
They believe that grades have a great prediction value, and they will not readily discard them. Some, like Education School Dean Francis Keppel '38, doubtless feel "that American education is not only a system of education, but of selecting people for various walks of life...
...fine record of their graduates, even when measured in such strictly academic terms as high per cent of graduate school admissions or fellowship awards, does not establish the applicability of their system to large numbers of students. Swarthmore's the most thorough in its discard of grades, includes only about 200 students, and these are drawn from a group of 900 which is already about as highly selected as Harvard...
Significantly, the U.S. note specifically included a request for De la Maza's alleged suicide note. Washington's investigators obviously wanted a look at the handwriting. And until the Dominican Republic proved its story, U.S. police could not discard the suspicion that Galindez' disappearance had brought in its train as many as four cover-up murders...
...Peace. Considering the size of the novel, the number of its characters, and the complexity of its ideas, that fact is hardly to be wondered at and not entirely to be condemned. The only trouble is that once the team of six writers who "adapted" the book decided to discard the philosophy of Tolstoy as impossible to dramatize, they failed to settle on a point of view of their own. And so they and director King Vidor produced a huge, handsome picture which might be called a historical romance, complete with all the superficial charm and the vacuity that...