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Perhaps this explains why, at a college so proud of its academic tradition, we hear so little talk about courses, except, that is, about exams, "curves," and grades. Harvard, we are told, is a "free marketplace of ideas," an "intellectual community," a "clash of lively minds." But the actual lack...

Author: By Craig K. Comstock, | Title: In Praise of Academic Abandon | 6/15/1961 | See Source »

Sophomores found little alarming in Professor Pitirim Sorokin's warning that modern war is 2000 times worse than the medieval version. Clarence Darrow denounced "poverty-creating big business" as "the cause of all crime." Sinclair Lewis declared that "one-half the people in colleges could be dropped to the advantage...

Author: By Martin J. Brookhuyson, | Title: 'Outside World' Crises, Changes At College Trouble Class of 1936 | 6/12/1961 | See Source »

The Economics 98 staff met Thursday and, according to H. Francois Wilkinson, head tutor in Economics next year, agreed that an examination would not make Ec 98 more of a rigid course than a tutorial program. The staff felt that some sort of exam--oral or written--was necessary to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Economics 98 To Schedule Written Exam | 3/4/1961 | See Source »

Students go on to graduate school anyway: last year four in five intended to do graduate study. Partly, no doubt, this trend responds to the growing complexity of all careers, but surely it reflects as well an unwillingness to leave the relatively safe academic environment, where grades are clear marks...

Author: By Stephen F. Jencks, | Title: The Vale of Academe | 3/3/1961 | See Source »

The more radical approach taken by David 'SL. HarFord II Professor of the . Of each lying our educational system, man seems to ask; what does it to help or hinder, the, development of man into what he--is Riesman view--ought to be? Thus he that American culture generally volves...

Author: By Clark Woodroe, | Title: Exams, Final Papers--Or Revise The System | 2/24/1961 | See Source »

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