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Still, Ponder kept bucking the system. In the semester finals he flunked six students including Minter. History Professor Robert Seager, the chairman of Annapolis' newly created chapter of the American Association of University Professors, upheld Ponder's position, insisting that grading is "an academic function and must be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Service Academies: Flunk Quota at Annapolis | 4/22/1966 | See Source »

Kienholz, as a Northwest farmer's son who has made Los Angeles his home, feels like the puritan visiting Gomorrah. Says he: "The bigness of this city is a sickness. This need for space, grading the hills and filling the valleys, it's all part of man'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sculpture: Savonarola in the City of Angels | 4/8/1966 | See Source »

Professor John Seeley, chairman of the Brandeis Sociology Department, touched off the controversy in February with a memo questioning ethics of grading "In a situation where professors hold life-and-death probability powers over their students. We are now an intimate part of the selection system. We are perhaps as...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brandeis Students Urge University To Boycott New Deferment System | 3/21/1966 | See Source »

Many colleges are easing grading pressures so that, as Brown University's Dean Robert O. Schulze puts it, students "can roam more freely over the academic landscape." As enrollment pressures increase at graduate schools, grade averages often become crucial to entry, and a bright physics student, for example, might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Universities: In Pursuit of Independence | 2/25/1966 | See Source »

Riesman also said that he did not think that the faculty should "opt out" of grading students because of the war. "People will be drafter anyway," he said.

Author: By Ellen Lake, | Title: Draft May Force Class Rankings; Brandeis Discusses Giving All A's | 2/24/1966 | See Source »

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