Word: grading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...adopted, the recommendations would generally stiffen the Dartmouth curriculum both by offering more highly concentrated courses and by raising grade standards. The report, released yesterday to the press and college officials, must win approval of faculty, administration and the Board of Trustees before it can be put in force...
...report asserted that some professors lowered grade standards to encourage registration in their courses, and students corroborated the allegation. To remedy this, the report suggested departmental standards of grading by which a student would be marked not just against his won section or course, but against the level of the entire department...
...present quota is too severe, putting undue emphasis on freshman mid-year grades," he continued. "Those grades are not indicative of a student's intellectual potential." He said that he expected the new quota to relieve some of the grade pressure for prospective concentrators. He also saw some likelihood of a gradual increase in the number of concentrators in the future...
...when he and Patterson became active co-editors and co-publishers of the Trib, Bertie McCormick was a strapping, blue-eyed young man with an air of Old World gallantry, a feeling of noblesse oblige and a love for the military. He had gone to grade school in England, graduated from Groton one form ahead of his archenemy-to-be, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. After Yale ('03) he moved into Chicago's swank Union Club and began law courses at Northwestern ("They had a lot of Yalemen on the Supreme Court about then, and we got the idea that...
...from the Files. Mother Mary Columba, once Elizabeth H. Tarpey, was born in Philadelphia to an Irish mother and an English father ("I wouldn't say he was very devout, but Mother was"), went to Catholic grade and high school. When she was twelve, she heard a Jesuit speak on Indian missions and wanted to leave at once. Her parents managed to persuade her to wait. While she waited, she read (Mark Twain and Horatio Alger in public, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the sly), eventually went to work as bookkeeper for Shellenberger Inc. (candy manufacturers). Six years later...