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There are other distortions in your letter, and other assumptions in its questions which are contrary to fact, but I may have written enough to suggest that if your letter came to me for grading as a professor of Government, I would not be able to give it high marks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: LOW MARKS FOR THE PROFESSORS | 5/7/1965 | See Source »

Tutorial is formally graded but "grading is friendly, to say the least," Monro said. It is usually fairly difficult to get on A, but it is at least as hard to get a D or E, he continued. He emphasized, however, that the University is quite willing to take the...

Author: By Ann Peck, | Title: Monro Lauds Princeton Grading Plan | 5/6/1965 | See Source »

The Council was organized last month by the Cornell freshman class president. At previous meetings, the Council decided that grading systems should be revamped to "reduce student tensions." The ideal system would include only three marks; honors, satisfactory, and unsatisfactory. The Council also suggested that programs like Harvard's freshman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ivy Freshmen Recommend Ending Choice of Housing | 3/31/1965 | See Source »

Handy Grading. To the cept-savvy student, cepts leap right out of the pages. In a politics course, he would readily note as a cept, "Revolutions are caused by rising expectations"; in philosophy, "To be is to perceive to be perceived"; in economics, "Calvinism caused capitalism"; in religion, "Capitalism caused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teaching: The Use & Abuse of the Cept | 3/26/1965 | See Source »

Some professors openly encourage ceptsmanship, stress the cept in their lectures, argue that students who retain the cepts acquire an understanding that goes beyond a rote knowledge of who said what. These teachers may also delight in the cept as a handy way of rating the quality of a student...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teaching: The Use & Abuse of the Cept | 3/26/1965 | See Source »

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