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An epidemic of high grades at colleges across the country has forced some chapters to add extra criteria to their evaluation procedures. Carl Billman '35, secretary of the United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa, said in an interview last week that the increase in Phi Beta Kappa level scores reflected...
Fell, who said he hoped courses similar to Nat Sci 27 would proliferate throughout the state, denied that grading was a primary factor in the course's popularity.
The quality of undergraduate education is severely undermined by the Kraus Plan. Most of the undergraduate teaching, including individual tutorials, discussion sections, and grading, is done by graduate students. Teaching fellows have served as mediators between undergraduates and the senior faculty, whose primary interest is research rather than teaching. Under...
The only flaw in an otherwise perceptive, well-written editorial entitled "Defeating Doctors" (Feb. 21) is the paragraph down-grading the importance of organic chemistry and other introductory science courses in producing competent practising physicians. From my brief experience in medical school, I must admit that Harvard's notorious organic...
The grading policy in Chem 20 also has serious faults. When the Harvard median is a B minus, half the Harvard premeds are automatically in serious trouble. The professors refuse to realize that any grade below a B minus virtually insures rejection from medical school (everyone is quick to think...