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This whole gripping scholastic drama is a farce. It is absurd, ludicrous, ridiculous. There is no place for it in a true school of humanism. As long as the only method of university instruction was that by courses, as system of marks and grading was a necessary administrative evil. But...
That methods of grading examinations should be as many and variable as the several departments is perhaps unavoidable, and be it said that most of these systems are just. Yet there is one which has grown of late into a scourge.
At Harvard the Rank List might be judged a means toward this end. It is, however, based upon an unsatisfactory system of grading. It is not successful because everybody recognizes the fact that grades alone are no true, are no just measure of a student's intellectual ability and achievement...
It has been previously pointed out in this column that with the present varying systems of grading an A means one thing in one course, and something else in another. By taking certain courses, probation can be easily avoided, whereas in others, a large proportion of each class is necessarily...
"Frequent tests are for all except Fifth and Sixth Group men an unnecessary worry and expense," declared Professor Kirsopp Lake yesterday afternoon when questioned by a CRIMSON reporter about the results of his experiment in permitting his English 35a students to choose between two plans of grading for the final...