Word: grading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lester is bitter, not because he missed the exam nor because he lost his hard earned sleep the next night while thinking up excuses. It seems that his well rested section man announced, "Absence at the exam is understandable and will count neither for nor against your grade...
Brightening the senior's weary scholastic life, a grade in Tutorial 99 is practically an automatic "A". Although the abundance of honor grades pleases in the seniors, the present system deflates the individual mark and creates an unhealthily stilted tutor-tutee relationship...
...marks are guaranteed before they reach University Hall, the student tends to regard his tutor as a grader, and acts accordingly. The tutorial program, adapted from British universities, purports to bridge the gap between the pupil and pedagogue; however, when a tutor must evaluate this in terms of a grade, it limits a free exchange of ideas and creates a false atmosphere. As a history tutor explained, "Some students invent problems just so they can come to my office...
...graduate schools, moreover, have noted that this plentitude of high grades often makes comparison of tutees in the same field of concentration nearly impossible. Yet, while an "A" is not a median grade, all seniors in tutorial are nevertheless academically qualified honors, accustomed to Dean's list marks...
Born in New York of Alsatian parents, Hoffer lost his sight in a childhood tumble, and though he regained his vision eight years later, he never finished grade school. At 18 he lit out for California and landed on Los Angeles' skid row. "It was then," he says, "that I first began to live." He rode the rails up and down the state, picking oranges, swinging sledges in railroad section gangs, lumberjacking. prospecting. On a gold-digging trip to the Sierras he took along a copy of Montaigne's essays. "We were snowed in and I read...