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James Q. Wilson, acting chairman of the Government Department, denied yesterday that any official policy on grading exists for the four introductory courses, Government 10, 20, 30 and 40, or that there would be any change this year. "It isn't true now and wasn't true" last year, Wilson...
Brimmer prospered at Washington. That he enjoyed a professor as an exclusive mentor, he says, was due to the fact that there was a small student-faculty ratio in the department. But Brimmer admits that he was already grading others' papers as an undergraduate and that he was a reader...
The Medical School officially entombed two reforms of the late-60s this year, retrenching to conservative positions on its curriculum and grading plan.
Last year the Medical Faculty replaced a five-year experiment in pass/fail grading with a four-point system for the pre-clinical years. First-year students this past fall, however, protested the change by refusing to sign exam books in key tests.
The students claimed that a comprehensive grading system only induced competition and ranking at a time when they had all made the grade--they would all be doctors if they passed their courses.