Word: grades
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proposal, if accepted, would be a serious setback to the tutorial system and a sad commentary on the quality of Harvard teaching. Whatever success tutorial enjoys at present is due to the quality and relevance of the material studied and the knowledge and teaching skill of the tutor. Instituting graded tutorial would be an admission that the present supply of these assets is inadequate to produce the interest needed for a good tutorial session. Grades would indeed create a certain type of interest. But better instruction and teaching would create another, more desirable sort of interest. If departments simply impose...
Professor Howard Fehr, head of the mathematics department at Columbia Teachers College, is generally an amiable man. but he can become blunt when talking about the abuse his subject takes in the average U.S. school. "The mathematical education of most math teachers," says he, "ends in the ninth grade.'' They teach arithmetic as if it involved nothing more than totting up grocery bills or figuring compound interest, completely fail to give their pupils any glimpse into the concepts that lie behind the subject. Last year Fehr took on the job of collaborating with TV Producer Richard Pack...
...Dining Halls will stage a full-scale Thanksgiving dinner for Thursday's lunch to reward those who remain for the holiday. William A. Heaman, manager of Dining Halls, reported that his department has purchased 5,000 pounds of "grade A" Tom Turkey for the huge meal...
...American Association of University Professors is planning to grade colleges and universities from "A" to "F" according to faculty salary scales...
...recovery in bonds was also significant for the stock market. With bond prices depressed, bond yields for the past year have been running at the highest levels since the Depression days of the 1930s, and consequently closer to stock yields. (Last week the average yield on high-grade corporate bonds was 4.8% v. 5.9% for the Dow-Jones industrials.) Since stocks are inherently more risky, many investors switched to bonds or did not invest at all. But bond dealers now think that the Fed's action has established a firm bottom for the bond market, and that bond prices...