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Those who flunk German A for the first half year or fare not too well in that course may take the first half year over again under the name of German C. It leads to German D, corresponding to the second half year of German A, which may be taken in the following fall. Dr. Howe, who is in charge of German C, is a teacher of the old school and is one of the very few men who can make nearly bearable a course which the vast majority are taking merely to satisfy language requirements...
...tell more that final examinations, valuable as the latter are to determine whether a boy is capable of meeting a test when the occasion arises. This will work out so that an applicant with a good school record will not fail of entrance to Yale simply because he may "flunk" a single subject in his finals. The ending of the September "finals" has come largely because the University does not expect particularly good results form a school-boy who has wasted his time during the school year and hurries through a summer school to make...
...course an out-of-hand determination that 10 1-2 men would get A's and the rest would flunk would be little better than assigning the specific marks to the individuals upon their enrollment in the course, but what many people seem to miss is the fact that the "distribution curve" system of marking, when properly applied, is a bet on the consistency of performance of a large group, the class, as against the consistency of performance of one man, the instructor. And that man's task is proverbially difficult, though it ranges in degree from a course...
When a professor decides before an examination what percentage of the class he will flunk, what percentage he will pass and what proportion of honor grades he will give, he lays himself open to a charge of gross injustice. To the student who dares complain he replies either that he is held down to the rules by a superior, or that he believes it the only satisfactory system. He can not, or will not, take into account the merit of the individual student. A man who writes an "A" paper thus receives a "B" simply because several other men wrote...