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Uncomprehended Heretics. Often the church acted rightly in condemning a heretical doctrine that would have undermined the entire structure of Christianity. But many of the early synods were conducted by theologians who could not have passed a freshman scriptural exam in one of today's divinity schools. Thus, Nigg suggests, it is possible that a theological view that prevailed to become orthodoxy was not necessarily the correct one. "The history of heresy," Nigg writes, "has shown that Christianity is richer in content than its ecclesiastical embodiment; the Gospel holds potentialities which have not yet come to the surface...
Severe penalties are in order for academic crimes. Yet it might come as a surprise to find that participation in the annual spring riot carries the same penalty as cheating on an exam. It does, and one principle to remember when contemplating an expedition into crime is that the College is pretty sensitive about its position in the Cambridge community. Town-gown relations are hardly as strained as those between Yale and New Haven, yet there is a definite residual feeling of anti Harvardism in some sections of Cambridge. (Translation: Don't go into the Cambridge Common at night unless...
...number of proposals have been advanced to remedy this situation. Some would require that all exams bear detailed comments; others suggest that each student have a right to confront his grader. One of the more unique suggestions is that Sanford A. Lakoff, assistant professor of Government. The present student-faculty ratio, Lakoff says, makes it "utopian" to expect elaborate comments or an individual session with a grader. Many courses might improve matters by devoting a special meeting to a "post-mortem" on the exam, but half-courses would find this difficult...
...Lakoff proposes that the graders in each major course be given a chance to publish their observations of the exam. Not only would this give the student an opportunity to learn what went on in the graders' minds--and perhaps how to write better examinations--but it would stimulate the graders' interest in their chore...
...malady afflicts other courses, R. H. Chapman taught 160, Drama Since Ibsen, to a diversified class this spring, passed up the opportunity to students from all fields in the theater. Instead, he made the a typical English in-group topping it off with exam , "Choose a distinctive and object from Henry IV, The of the Western World, and , and relate it to the meaning of the play," and "Discuss of the use of visible --light to dark, man to animal, to myth, victim to hero, or -- as a dramatic device." are many other examples of , concentration-oriented...