Word: grading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proposal, drafted by the Faculty Council on Wednesday, recommends to the full Faculty that, for the first time in Harvard's history, an entire Gen Ed course be changed from a letter-grade basis to an ungraded system of "satisfactory-unsatisfactory...
Referees inhabit a closed but unstable world, based on a jesuitical hierarchy of ratings. After working each game, refs receive a secret grade on their performance from the coaches of both teams and a "brother" official on a scale from one to ten. Ratings are an official's lifeblood. Those who fall into the bottom ten per cent of the pile at the end of the year are summarily sacked and replaced by "freshmen officials," who are brought up from the snakepits of high school ball and community leagues. "The cut gives iniative to young guys who are just starting...
...YMCA league, but was injured in a game when he was 27 and decided to take the mandatory written exam for entering the referee ranks. The would-be refs are also marked on a "flaw test," says Hannon, which "is pretty much cut and dried." After making the grade, refs work junior varsity ball for two years and then apply to be placed on the ECAC freshmen officials list. They are then either elected or relegated to the high schools by a vote of varsity-level officials...
Under the new honors standards, Veronica would have taken guts for a letter grade instead, because pass-fail now counts as much as a failing grade in honors calculations...
After this July, summa candidates need a departmental recommendation, a "very high grade-point average" outside their department, and at least an A- in a full course or two half courses in each of the areas outside the area of their discipline, rather than the three half-course A-'s outside their area they need this June...