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The CEP did not ask whether undergraduates would be teaching. The confusion arose because of Cottle's mistaken assumption that undergraduates could lead sections so long as they were not officially responsible for grading.
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Grading will be left up to the individual sectionmen and their students. At yesterday's opening, Michael H. Schwartz, a teaching fellow in Social Relations and a course organizer, said that most section-men will refuse to do the grading themselves. He mentioned the possibility of utilizing a "nonsense" grading...
A second student course, Social Relations 136, will start today to set up study groups-workshops on Harvard itself. An outgrowth of the Harvard Educational Project, the course is financed by a $5000 foundation grant. It too will leave grading and content largely up to the students.
No More Lock Step. There will also be more students than ever before. Mayhew argues that all educators will come to recognize that a balanced, liberal arts college education can be absorbed by and helpful to almost everyone, provided that the pressures of grading and lock-step progress are eased...