Word: graded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Left over from a time when course grades were, almost exclusively, the basis of the degree, the general honors award has become sharply out of harmony with the ideal and aims of the college. It places unfortunate stress on the grade-grubbing routine and permits neglect of tutorial work, the thesis, and the advantages of concentrated study in one field culminating in general examinations. Aside from its inadequacy within the College, there is marked inequity in granting the same cum laude on such different grounds of achievement. The degree should be a badge of something approaching maturity of outlook; nine...
...polo has a cc.chet, a glamor that it lacks in Texas where cowboys play it wearing chaps, or in Hollywood where actors have their handicaps published in Variety, or at Meadow Brook where it is taken completely for granted. Two summers ago, Chicago had a taste of high-grade polo when an Argentine team stopped off to play. This year Chicago will have more than a taste. In honor of the World's Fair, the Open Championship will probably be played there with players from England and possibly a 25-goal team of Indians led by the Maharaja...
...need for the Critic, but further than this criticism is wholly negative. Where do they stand, these editors who damn at once the aristocracy, who pay their dues and take their D's, the middle class, who find their sex at Radcliffe and Wellesley, and the working classes, grade grubbers. In so far as it is discernible, their attitude seems to be that brewed at the tea tables of Brattle street and Shaler Lane, a prim pursing of the lips at the mention of kidnapping, deb-chasing or codfishing, and a muttered "boys will be boys...
...chief object of criticism, however, is the undergraduate himself. The leading editorial heaps scorn upon the "indifferent," the "deb-chasers," and the "grade-grubbers," while special articles expose the short-comings of the "final" club men and the Phi Beta Kappa. The case of the "final" club men seems even more hopeless. The critic of final club mentality is uncertain whether their low scholastic standing, for which statistical proof is offered, is the consequence of congenital mental inferiority or absorption in social activities or general "indifference." In other articles a tribute is paid to the commercial tutors for their services...
...method of teaching it in such a manner as to make it seem alive has not yet been worked out and probably never will be. The grammar can only be called a necessary nuisance. On the whole the modicum of French which will suffice to get a passing grade is surprisingly small, and the instructors have a happy habit of easing up on the final examination. Those who are not far enough advanced to take French 2, and lack the initiative to learn French by reading it, have no alternative but to take a deep breath, plunge in, and hope...