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The latest issue of The Crimson Review contains an article by Stephen F. Jencks on the advisability of having open-book exams as evidence of the "creativity" of professors and their course material, as well of course as evidence of the creativity of students.
My attention has been called to an assertion in your columns that the Faculty has been selfish about scholarship funds. Since your zestful editorialist has directed against others an attack that should properly be aimed at me, I write to remind you that the Faculty as a body does not...
What is ironic is that Mr. Jencks, the scourge of the faculty, is like nothing so much as a faculty member in his view of academic finances. This is particularly clear in his notion of what should be done with unrestricted funds. He believes that the Administration should feel "obligated...
Perhaps in Bender's time and mine we spent too much on financial aid; perhaps we spent too little. Perhaps the President and I let the budget of the central Faculty grow too fast--or perhaps we were too cautious. But the standards used by Mr. Jencks simply do not...
President Pusey's recent commitment of funds, made after Mr. Bender had left office, is a highly commendable stop to reversing this trend, and one which was in no way minimized in Saturday's article. Stephen F. Jencks.