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Missed Man. The first step in the Shula overhaul is "grading" films of last season's games. This is no cursory screening. Using an elaborate marking system, Shula and his six assistant coaches go over every play to grade the performance of each player. In reviewing last October'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Dolphins in Drydock | 3/25/1974 | See Source »

In its third meeting since membership elections were held at the end of February, the CUE also discussed as topics for consideration possible changes in the grading system, the place of the arts in the curriculum, the role of women in education, and the possibility of opening restricted majors.

Author: By Michael Massing, | Title: CUE to Study Teaching Loads As Major Topic This Semester | 3/22/1974 | See Source »

Eugene Welljamsdorf'73, a firstyear Med student, said two weeks ago that the drop in the boards owed partly to the advent of pass/fail grading, but he added that the faculty's despair over the test scores is not valid.

Author: By Philip Weiss, | Title: Tortoises and Hares at the Med School | 2/27/1974 | See Source »

One of the most interesting sidelights to the issue is the fact that Harvard scores on the National Boards for medicine, administered before graduation, have dropped from almost uniformly number-one status, ever since the faculty changed the curriculum and introduced pass/fail grading in 1968. Most attribute the drop to...

Author: By Philip Weiss, | Title: Tortoises and Hares at the Med School | 2/27/1974 | See Source »

Whether faculty concern over the Boards prompted its tenacious stance on the grading system is a subject of great debate. Eugene P. Kennedy, Kuhn Professor of Biological Chemistry and the chairman of that department, said earlier this month that his students did well under both pass/fail and graded systems, and...

Author: By Philip Weiss, | Title: Tortoises and Hares at the Med School | 2/27/1974 | See Source »

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