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...system. Sargent Kennedy, the Registrar, and Henry S. Dyer, the College's statistician, have been appointed along with other officials to a committee which will make recommendations for revising grading procedure. One of the problems they should consider is the matter of letter grades and their relations to rank list standing...
Under the present set-up, plusses and minuses have much less importance than many people attach to them. B-plus and B-minus both count as straight B's for rank list ratings and for the student's final record transcripts. The man with a B-plus who has just missed an A has, in a sense, been robbed, while a person with a B-minus has been exalted somewhat out of proportion to his talents...
...arriving at their letter grades) these grades average out to be about an 85. Yet, this man is placed in Rank Group IV. Another student gets four B-minuses, which is about an 81, and he ends up in Group III, which gives him Dean's List privileges. For borderline scholarship holders, who generally must not drop below Group III to keep their scholarship, this inconsistency can have unhappy consequences...
Heading the list of Harvard educators is President Conant, who will give a course on the Science of General Education. Harlow Shapley, director of the University Observatory, will make one of his rare appearances in Astronomy S142, Introduction to Cosmogony...
Contrary to an article in Life magazine last spring, the Rugby Club will have considerably more to do than romp around at beach parties. The schedule for the Bermuda Week does list a few parties on the sands, but during the week Callahan's players will meet Princeton, Yale, and experienced squads from the Royal Navy, the Bermuda AA, and the British Army...