Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other level of contact was referred to as the earthly, where "the teacher sits on the same level as the student, discussing the truth as it appears to each." While it is highly dubious that a University Professor will sit with a freshman discussing truth, it is possible that in the House dining halls, in an occasional meeting during office hours, and hopefully at an open house, a professor might chat with students more often than at present...
...strains of conflicting roles call for improvement in the best faculty, several faculty members point out that there is also room for improvement among the undergraduates. As one professor said, "We are faced with either bringing the faculty down to the student's level of the student's up to the level of the faculty...
...student level would be raised, according to this professor, at the expense of athletes, class presidents, sons of alumni, and children of wealthy families. Such a move would discourage universal men among the students, but would make the College a community of scholars. These students would stimulate the faculty and thus encourage closer contact...
...level of the student continues to rise, the professor will find his lectures are being better understood, and thus the students will find more areas untouched, more questions unanswered, and more loopholes...
Sophisticated students may ridicule the A and those who seek it. But when they accept a lower mark, perhaps a B-, as minimal for self-respect, they are mislead into believing that B- stands for an important, measurable level of learning...