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Girls, as Harvard men note with-occasional bitterness, get grades just as high as men, higher aptitude scores, and more departmental honors. Either the entire collegiate grading system is such a farce that it its mere-continuation is a positive evil, or else the College has failed to cope with...
A number of Eli deans, faculty member and the Yalle Dally have suggested abandoning Yale's "childish" grading system in favor or something similar to Harvard's Rank List.
Thomas A. Timberg '64, chairman of the HCUA committee on exam grading, claimed last week that Gov 1 uses "an unfair and inequitable" quota system that limits the number of honor grades to be awarded in each section.
Dean Ford said Wednesday that department chairmen are free to set up any grading system they choose in courses under their direction. "The University doesn't have any policy at all" on the percentage of honor grades that can be awarded in a course, he explained.
Ford said he did not know which courses have quota systems and which do not, and that the recent publicity about the grading curve in Gov 1 was the first he had heard about the quota system.