Word: grading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fired him . . . The whole incident was only a temporary setback, however, because he is still in the school system and has recently been appointed to a $9,000-a-year post. There are no rewards in the U.S. save for mediocrity, and it must be of an inferior grade. FRANCIS LYNCH Los Angeles
...approved the concept of tutorial, but were more pleased with the potential they saw in the system than with actual operation. Tutorial work, they claimed, too often lacks direction. Also, there has been little incentive for spending study time on tutorial work when the hours might mean a better grade in a credit course. Since thoughts for improving this situation have ranged from a distasteful compulsory tutorial to a plea for better tutors, no action had been taken. With this background, the decision of the Economics Department to institute oral examinations for all juniors is especially worthy of consideration...
...addition to giving both tutor and tutee a better view of the year's progress, junior orals would frequently be good preparation for the senior year. Many honor candidates come up against orals when much more than a tutorial grade is at stake, and any experience in this type of examination can only be to the good...
Students range from housewives to factory workers, and they must attend three quarters of their classes; there are no correspondence courses. The format of the classes is exactualy the same as classes at Harvard and the cooperating institutions; there are lectures, discussions, written and laboratory work. A grade of C is required to pass a course which is customarily divided into two fifteen week terms with a mid year and final exam...
From 1913 to 1933, a student taking seventeen full extension courses with a grade of C or higher in twelve of them, qualified for an Associate in Arts degree. His choice of subjects was and still is restricted by generally the same General Education requirements as a Harvard undergraduate...