Word: grading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They voted informally to accept the Committee on Honors' proposal to require standard grade point averages for summas and CLGS degrees, but decided not to demand an overall average for cum and magna candidates...
Professor H. Mansfield asked the President what was being done about the problem of grade inflation, particularly among undergraduates. He noted that the matter had been touched upon in Dean Rosovsky's "Letter on Undergraduate Education" last Spring, but Professor Mansfield was not aware that the specific issue had been assigned to any of the Task Forces which were currently deliberating various aspects of undergraduate education. Professor Mansfield declared that when one considered that last June eighty-five percent of the class had graduated with honors and that seventy-three people had received Summas, it was possible to question...
...much of his time watching actual trials and running a successful investigative firm servicing local lawyers. During classes he often read in apparent boredom; when his professors tried to tag him with sudden questions, he would smugly answer in minute detail, then go back to his reading. His worst grade, ironically, was on a criminal law exam?but only because he is plagued with a bad case of lefthanders' handwriting and could not finish all his answers. After that debacle, he was permitted to bring a typewriter to all his exams; even today he writes only his signature and types...
BASKETBALL--Only an excellent grade on the mid-term (victory in the Beanpot) salvaged an otherwise "it's best be forgotten" first half. Unlike the other teams, the hoopsters have already played the biggies on their schedule, winning but one of them (B.C. two weeks...
...second half should provide comic relief (eight games, including Brown, Yale, Cornell, and Columbia) and in all probability, a final record of something like 13-13, which could produce a third-place Ivy finish and a final grade of "B." Nothing spectacular, but certainly better than the Ivy basement and a mid-term rating of "C+," which is how the cagers rate today...