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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...asking how much stress should be laid on the final examination in computing the grades for Government I, Professor Holcombe, whose letter appears in an adjoining column, raises a question of fundamental importance for all elementary courses at Harvard. Grades in advanced courses may usually without misgivings be determined on the basis of one or two examinations and possible a thesis. But the problem is not so easily solved for such large elementary courses as Government I, History I, or English...
...problem of grading, however, is not easy. At the beginning of the second half-year I abandoned the decimal system of grading formerly used in Government I and adopted the method of grading by letter which is in use in History I and Economics A. That method has been followed throughout the second half-year and will be followed hereafter. The writer of your editorial seems to have overlooked this change, but I am glad to know that it has your approval...
...total record in a course, a value must be assigned to each of its components. Unless the final grade is to be no more than a rough approximation of the true value of the work done in a course, a unit of measurement must be adopted and all letter grades recomputed in terms of that unit. For example, how much weight should be assigned to the final examination and to the weekly papers, respectively...
...regular on the nine; F. B. Cutts '28 was the man who as relief pitcher in his junior and senior years chalked up three victories over Yale; Wilmot Whitney '16 and L. F. Young '23 were leading hurlers of their day; and finally Richard Harte '17 was a three letter man, playing on the baseball and football teams in 1915 and 1916 and on the tennis outfit for his last three years in College...
Should scholarships be such a gamble? Is it just that the man who works outside a thousand hours a year and misses the Dean's List by the difference between a "C" plus and a "B" minus should receive nothing more than a form letter of regret, especially when his numerical average may be actually higher than that of a man on the Dean's List...