Word: forster
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...practical labor are meager. The now-defunct Hon. Robert Treat Paine Prize rewarded the best original investigation plus "practical conclusions" of some form of charity work. However, an essay on "The Special Phase of the Labor Question" could be substituted for first-hand investigation. The radicalism of E. M. Forster's reformers was soothed by John Ruskin's writings; The Harvard radical who wants a prize can write an essay on John Ruskin. The Boston Ruskin Club pays $145 for the best...
...Segmented grades" aggravate the pressure which Forster hopes the proposed system would ease. "It's much better to strive for honors than to try to go from a C plus to a B minus," he noted. An honor grade would be broader than the present...
...small grade distinctions also en courage objective examinations, while a qualitative grade would lead to more meaningful essay exams, Forster added...
...Forster agreed with the students that the graduate schools might object "because we would be giving them less help and making them look for other qualifications." But he feels that Dartmouth's stature would influence the graduate schools "not to lean on grades...
...proposal is adopted, Dartmouth would come closest to an ungraded curriculum in the Ivy League. But the faculty, which is now split about fifty-fifty, is not likely to give Forster the large mandate he considers essential for the change...