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...other department chairmen commented yesterday on the advantages of Dunlop's policy for their own departments. Arthur A. Maass, chairman of the Government Department, said that the chief virtue of such a system is its ability to attract new men. As for his own department, Maass feels that a half-time teaching program should not be made a rigid policy at this time...
...department unanimously recommended the change. I expect that the faculty will honor the recommendation," he declared. Last Spring, when the suggestion was first made to omit the grade for Gov 99, Maass said that the change would probably not go into effect until...
...Maass dismissed this argument yesterday. "Tutors have to write recommendations anyway," he said. In his own experience of admitting graduate students, he continued, there never has been any trouble evaluating graduates of such colleges as Swarthmore and Oberlin "who have more ungraded courses on their transcripts than...
...noted that grades for senior tutorial are not required at mid-year. Maass said, however, the department is equally concerned with eliminating them in June also. Honors are voted in late May before the final tutorial grades are in, he explained, and therefore these marks have no bearing...
...Faculty approves the change, the Gov department would simply give "credit" or "non-credit" for the tutorial or mark it "satisfactory" or "non-satisfactory." If the department must retain year-end grades, however, it will make them a reflection of the thesis, Maass said...