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Under the current system, year-end examinations assert the definitive judgment of our capacities while providing us no evaluative feedback during the year. Grades create a status hierarchy with few winners, but many losers. The current procedures are unjustifiable at a time when the school is attracting so many highly-motivated, well-qualified students. As the ones who stand to lose by this system, we want to see it changed before we experience the unhappy effects of it; but we also recognize that the issues we raise deeply affect an educational process that is the central concern of a faculty...
...evaluation system should point out students' weaknesses in time for them to be overcome. The present system never gives the student any feedback about how well or poorly he is doing until it is too late to respond. Apart from the practice exam, there are no points along the way where the student is challenged by quizzes, written work, or group projects. At no point, even after his grades are handed to him, does he receive any constructive guidance about how well he is absorbing the law and what his relative strengths and weaknessse are. A student whose basic problem...
...Five, but both of them were dismal limitations. Look at the individual members of the group. Peter Townshend plays lead and writes most of the songs. A lot of the time he plays chorded lead like the Stones on "Jumpin Jack Flash." A lot of the time he uses feedback. His lead is never predictable or clear cut; more so live than on the records. Often the breaks in songs performed are unrecognizable if you don't know the records well. But if you do know what he's working on, the abstraction and suggestiveness of his music is delightful...
Beck repeats it deep, and the band is together again in a coherent ball of jarring, flaring sound. Beck takes off once more on guitar careening over into a feedback wail, he stops, scratches twice, Hopkins and Waller supply connecting riffs, Beck plays a horn blast. Amid all this discord, Beck, stroke of genius, does a willowing eddy of tune straight out of B.B. King. An abrupt stop again, Beck thumps the side of his guitar and bounces on his knees, Waller slams down harshly twice, Beck reels off long liquid strings picking up the early song tune. He starts...
...sense of betrayal is made even more acute by the fact that the Beatles are such formidable anatagonists. 'Revolution' is a great record. The music is gripping and explosive from the Chuck Berry riff that opens the song, to the bar of feedback that ends it, and the lyrics are some of John Lennon's most rythmically controlled. And when at then end Lennon, rasping shouts, the challenge "All Right" over and over again one trembles in disbelief and honor that he is shouting at the wrong people...