Word: griswold
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...Griswold's remarks were part of a memorandum on grading blue books sent to the faculty on May 12. Members of the Law Faculty contacted yesterday said they considered the suggestions part of a normal review of grading policy. Griswold's remarks were suggestions and not binding on individual professors...
...Specifically," Griswold said, "I would like to suggest that if a blue book is really so bad that it is a failure, it should be given a falling mark, and should not be marked with a 55 or 56 on the chance that the man may have done better in other courses...
Dean Erwin N. Griswold suggested to the Faculty of Law this month that "grades may be more accurate overall" if more law students were given failing marks on examinations, and more received very high grades...
...memorandum dated May 12, Griswold noted that "there is a very strong tendency to concentrate the great bulk of grades around the middle." He suggested that "the grades may be more accurate overall if this centripetal force is resisted, and if deliberate attention is given to the matter of having somewhat higher grades at the top, and somewhat lower grades at the bottom...
Responsibility & Realization. As Griswold sees it, the court has simply "decided that the time has come to enforce the high standards that we have long professed." To be sure, this makes life harder for law-enforcement agencies. "We must do more to help and upgrade the police. They should be better paid and better educated. They should have much more instruction on their duties than is now available to them." When the states fully meet such responsibilities, said Griswold, "we will all be better off and we will have more nearly realized the potentialities of our great federal form...