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Grade-consciousness is an inevitable product of an educational system that attempts to rate its students. Its effects are two-fold: while some people tend to work harder for marks, the very fact that they are being graded can also make them shy away from difficult courses. Among the most valuable features of the new Advanced Standing plan is a provision allowing scholarship holders to keep their stipends even if their grades in especially difficult courses fall below the required scholarship average, In drafting such a regulation, the Committee on Educational Policy hoped to eliminate the aspect of mark-consciousness...
...built around the "laboratory" type course and has a two-fold purpose: to provide for reinforcement of certain basic skills in mathematics and languages and to round out the student's general education by providing a body of common knowledge that will serve as a basis for later specialization in any particular field. A certain amount of lectures are still given to provide background material: Professor George Taylor who heads the new sophomore American Studies course calls them "a bout with traditionalism." At the heart of the curriculum are seminar sections based on the principle of "learning through doing...
Also ignored by the present policy is the effect the millions of refugees may have on the free world's camgaign to bolster democracy. Most have been detained for more than seven years in camps, many of them in Western Europe. There is a two-fold danger here: at best these people will have a political apathy toward democratic countries, and at worst they react with violent hostility toward the free world. In effect we are nurturing a modern type of savage deprived of the rights of existing laws...
...millions, Hughes got a studio without a picture in production and without an established star in the fold. It has one-picture-a-year agreements with such headliners as Gary Grant and John Wayne but has no big names actually on the payroll. (Jane Russell, now negotiating for her own picture-a-year deal, has been under contract to Hughes Productions, not RKO.) Even at that, RKO seemed a good buy. Among its assets...
Chandler still brings some of his sentences to a halt with the too-arresting simile or metaphor. An hour crawls by "like a sick cockroach." A clam-lipped Marlowe says: "What I'd tell him you could fold into a blade of grass." But Chandler's world has a rasping authenticity, from its lingo to its lingerie...