Word: graded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...instructor read the Sophomoric piece in the New York Herald-Tribune (and it also appeared in some Brooklyn journals). He became at once a sadder but wiser man. At the next conference the student showed him the news-paper clippings of his work, asking for a new grade. But the English instructor shook his head sadly, saying, "There are editors. . . and editors...
...public in New York City, he has found that a large number have little or no right to be called whiskey inasmuch as they have been cut about ten times. In spite of the fact that those concoctions are composed for the most part of a cheap grade of alcohol they sell for the perfectly outrageous price of two and a half or three dollars a quart, when the price of straight whiskey delivered to the retailer exclusive of taxes can be as low as one dollar and twenty cents a gallon. Obviously, there is something wrong somewhere, and somebody...
...fully developed tutorial system such as the CRIMSON outlined on Friday and Saturday of last week, one of the initial problems to be solved would be that of examinations. Since the course system would be abolished and since it would create a chaotic situation for every tutor to grade his own tutees, the only solution would be the creation of a special board in every department to set the examinations in the manner that the Senior divisionals are set at present. These examinations, coming at the end of the year, would contain a great number of alternative questions to allow...
...concentrating in English the reading as assigned is invaluable. To one who is not concentrating in English the reading may prove interesting depending on the individual's taste. The student in this course may pass surreptitiously by some of the reading without materially affecting his grade. A rather formal souffle rendered more palatable by Professor Greenough's interpretation and presentation...
...Freshman required intellect. A week later at a section meeting he got it back marked "E" and also annotated "This is the worst thing I have ever seen in English A. Please see me at the end of the hour." The Freshman was more incensed at the unnatural grade on the paper than his discretion could bear. So he made a clean breast of the affair, including some covered references to the instructor's ability to grade...