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Over 85 per cent of the first-year Medical School class will refuse to sign their blue-books at an exam tomorrow morning in an attempt to force the implementation of pass-fail grading, a member of the class said yesterday.
"The greater the proportion of a student's record which is reported in terms of a non-traditional grading system," Edward I. Stevens, the author of the article, wrote, "the greater the potential for difficulty in entering another institution."
Riesman believes that Harvard must be made a more "supportive and nurturent" place. He sees a national trend towards more low-key schools like Brown, which recently instituted pass-fail grading on a wide scale.
The most peculiar aspects of the system occur in the largest departments, specifically History, English, and Government. For years, academics have questioned the validity of subjectively grading honors theses in English, maintaining that it is nearly impossible to accurately judge the quality of a literary work. This logic seems to...
Graduate students feel pressure in thesis grading, primarily because in most departments, the other reader is a senior Faculty member, and a grad student's future depends on senior Faculty in the department. Bullitt says that Heimert attended the meetings to protect the grad students from pressure, but he scoffed...