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The junior members of the Government department voted than any extended tutorial for upperclass non-honors men should be neither compulsory, nor should it receive regular course credit. Although everyone agreed that some form of progress record should be kept on individual students, opinion was divided on exactly what form...
Two final controversial features of the Council proposals deserve consideration: tutorial content and grading. As the Blackmer Report points out, the present content of tutorial in several departments is either overspecialized or aimless. Any new program should allow tutors freedom to assign work fitting the individual interests of each group...
As for grading a student's work in tutorial, many feel that this is necessary to insure that assignments are not neglected in the face of other academic pressures. While some written comment at the end of the year is undoubtedly desirable as a check on both student and tutor...
The new Yale system uses marks ranging from three for excellent to zero for failure. It purports to discourage pure grinds, while increasing participation in extracurricula activities. The Law School here has the widely-used one to 100 grading basis.
Sturges believes that grading on a quality basis will increase interest in such activities as the "Law Journal" and Moot Court.