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In the editorial on Soc Rel 148-9 you speak condescendingly of Roger Brown's (chairman of the Soc Rel Department) objections to the courses, that they seem to have "'irregular' grading, 'unqualified' sectionmen, and 'activist' sections." This, to you, is not "an adequate explanation" for questioning the courses' academic...
You can't have it both ways. If you think that these issues are purely political--that it's a question of power only--that concerns about academic excellence. University control, grading, personnel--are irrelevant, then say so. I happen to think that these are legitimate concerns, and I'm...
THE Government Department is considering a plan to improve the way it grades students taking junior tutorial, but its proposal overlooks the fundamental problems in the grading system.
For all these reasons, we find the grading process abhorrent, and we intend to substitute other mechanisms to perform those functions of grades that we feel should be retained. In our course we will prepare written evaluation of each student's work. The evaluation will be available to the student...
Therefore, we petition the Committee on Educational Policy to recommend to the Faculty that the grading requirement be removed from our course. Further, we ask for a public hearing with the C.E.P. concerning our petition and the general role of grades at Harvard. We would like to raise at the...