Word: graded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Strictly speaking the assistance offered by Phi Beta Kappa men should not be called tutoring: it is rather advice. Presumably a man elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Society has done work distinctly above the average grade in his courses and may be expected to have got more than the average return from them. That is probably owing in part to the fact that he has learned how to organize his work, where to put the emphasis in a given course, and how to review most effectively. If this kind of information can be passed along to students to whom...
...least partially solved by the English Department is a matter of no mean moment in the development of the Harvard curriculum. The abolition of the useless anticipatory examination and the lifting of the English. A requirement for all those who have passed the comprehensive entrance examination with a grade of 70 or above are certainly steps in the right direction...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences passed the vote submitted to them by the Department of English approving the abolition of the present anticipatory examination in English A. As a substitute for this examination, candidates for admission to Harvard College passing the Comprehensive paper in English with a grade of 70 percent or higher will be relieved from the prescribed work in English A. This change will take effect this spring...
...view of the shortness of this notice to the schools it was likewise voted that candidates passing the Old Plan paper in June or September, 1927, with a grade of 70 percent or higher will likewise be relieved from the prescribed work in English...
...present Freshman class, 286 men passed the New Plan and Old Plan papers with a grade of 70 percent or higher. Under the new regulations these men would be allowed to enter at once upon more advanced work either in English or in any other courses open to Freshmen...