Word: grading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since 1927, it has been the policy of the Law School to admit all graduates of "colleges of high grade", who ranked in the upper three quarters of the class, and graduates of other colleges who ranked in the first quarter of the class...
...often been found before but always quickly forgotten, that there is a high correlation between success in college and success in the Law School, and that there is a marked variance in the standards of performance required in the colleges. For example, one New England college of high grade sent 72 men with approved records of whom 62.5 per cent failed, and only two obtained an honor grade. Of the men who attained in college a mark under 82, three quarters failed, none received an honor grade, and less than 12 per cent received a respectable grade. Another New England...
...setting a "critical grade" between the promising and the less promising, President Conant said that subject matter is of little importance, the examination level and the intrinsic capacity of the student, whose intellectual places in the world are predestined at least by the time they enter college, being the significant factors. The only important requisites of a liberal education, in addition to good teaching which brings out the intellectual capacity of each student, are concentration in a limited field as opposed to smatterings of information, and a stimulating atmosphere which promotes discussion between men of different departments...
...grade of C at the end of the year is considered proof of a sufficient knowldege of English for a college student. Since there are no mid-year examinations, and the November "Hours" usually include a theme, the principal basis for the marks are written compositions. The main test, therefore, is ability to write good English, which would be fully proven by a mark of "B" at mid-years...
...combined with the fact that the course does not count towards a degree, provided little incentive for hard work. A more reasonable exemption mark; on the other hand, would stimulate effort. Most students can not consider the course as anything less than a penalty. B is an honor grade and should be considered sufficient to remove this chastisement...