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Like cullers grading a catch of salt cod for market, Newfoundland's National Convention sifted forms of government. The 45 members (TIME, July 8) drew their $10 to $15 a day apiece, and took their time. For six months they bickered and bantered on everything from relief to roads...
All that is necessary for the college's welfare is to determine which students are unfit for academic training at all; a drastically reduced grading system could do that. If he is merely playing around at Harvard, throw him out; if he is serious and has minimal aptitude leave him...
Harvard College does not pretend to possess a perfect grading system. Essay type examinations cannot be evaluated with mathematical exactness, and the grader cannot be completely objective no matter how hard he may try to prevent his personal views from affecting the mark he assigns a blue book. But the...
Dissatisfaction results from the vast difference in scholastic work required to achieve the same grade even in courses within the same department, and the interminable difficulties involved in having a grade changed even when the instructor admits the possibility of an error in judgment. There are no standards for grading...
During the fall, Professor Pound has carried nine hours of teaching on his weekly schedule, grading all term papers and examinations himself. "I do not think it is fair to my students to have assistants do the work," he said. Since his retirement as Dean of the Law School in...