Word: grades
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trouble with the system is not with the tutorial work but with the importance of grades in course work. A student will always lay aside important and interesting tutorial work to spend time getting ready for the too numerous hour exams. Change the grade system to let a man do what work he wants and make it so the tutorial system does not have such unfair competition in the course work...
...impression is that very few sophomores and a great many juniors are so occupied with getting grades in courses that they have very little time for educating themselves. The course system with its emphasis on closely specified grades and definite units of credit definitely prolongs the worst evils of high school well on into what should be a University career. Many men never really get over the desire to be told what to do next-and worse-to have some grade put upon their every attempt at a separate work. I feel that great progress could be made...
...believe that the tutorial work should be put on the same footing as course work. The tutee and the tutor should select the field they want to cover. There should be a reading list, quizzes and examinations, and a grade should be turned in. Then both tutors and tutees would take the work more seriously. It should be more valuable to the student than a class, as the instruction can be adjusted to the progress the student makes and individual difficulties can be dealt with as they arise...
...students who receive a grade of a at mid-years in English A 1 will be excused from further work in the course, it was announced late yesterday by R. S. Hillyer '17, associate professor of English, in charge of English...
...that those men who were admitted to the Freshmen class under the Highest seventh rule and who might have received a high mark in the English examination, had they taken it, are now given the chance of taking more advanced work in English if they receive an A grade...