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...college without acquiring the ability to express their thoughts in coherent prose. And it is a well known fact of Harvard man ship that the grades go not always to the brilliant, but to those who can fill a bluebook with language that neither confuses or bores a grader...
...consequences of this trip to the archives go beyond depriving some professors of an annual bluebook bonfire. Students should now be given back their books. No longer will the reasoning behind a particular grade be the secret of a grader, pried from him only a specially-arranged meetings. If a student is to write for three hours, he deserves to know where he failed or succeeded. Under the new University regulation, or lack of it, there is no reason that he must be deprived of this knowledge any further...
...grader takes time to Marshall his arguments and set them down, the marking process will be slowed considerably. But the value in a detailed reply by the grader outweighs the expense and time involved. Examinations can do many things. They can separate knowers from guessers. But to be thoroughly useful, a test must enlighten the student as well as evaluate his past work. If the graders had to back up their decision with an opinion, careful evaluation of essays would be better insured. It is time for examination books to be out from in front of fireplaces and back...
...clock one morning last week, a chunky woman with red-tinted hair walked into the reception room at Kansas City's fashionable French Institute of Notre Dame de Sion. where Bobby Greenlease was a first-grader. She was Bobby's aunt, she said, and she had come for him because his mother had suffered a heart attack. Could the boy be released from school to go to his mother's bedside? A nun went to get Bobby, while the woman entered the school's tranquil chapel and knelt in prayer. Down from his classroom, Bobby gave...
...gates of Canada's Chalk River atomic energy project, usually heavily guarded, were deliberately left deserted one recent evening. In lonely majesty a big road grader with a lead-shielded cab lumbered slowly out, towing a skid with a bulky, canvas-wrapped burden. As the skid scraped past, radiation detection devices went wildly off scale. Inside the canvas was a 2½-ton aluminum tank, probably the most troublesome radioactive object that man has ever handled...