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...recommendation acknowledges "that students are more concerned with grades than they are with the substance of education," Roy P. Forster, professor of Biological Sciences and former chairman of the Committee, explained Wednesday...
...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...
Died. Clive Bell, 83, British art critic and charter member of London's once celebrated Bloomsbury Group of intellectuals (others: John Maynard Keynes, E. M. Forster, and Bell's sister-in-law Virginia Woolf), a vociferous champion of such post impressionists as Cézanne, Van Gogh and Gauguin in the early 1900s when other Britons thought them horrid; of cancer; in London...