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...what Prof. Bell calls the "mental stability," "intellectual ability" and "basic integrity" of Negro students at Harvard. What I do say in those articles, and would reiterate, is that too many black students enter Harvard with academic deficiencies (perhaps 40%) and that this should be avoided by raising the median SAT verbal and math scores of black students nearer to the median for Harvard College. I also argue that a quota for blacks is defensible and the proportion of blacks in Harvard College be maintained...
During the 1960s, the authors write, income for black families rose 99.6%,* while income for white families increased 69%. In the North and West, young black married couples showed even more striking gains. Where the head of the household was under 35, median income rose from 78% of white income in 1959 to 96% in 1970. Almost one-third of the nation's black families now earn more than $10,000 a year...
...grading policy in Chem 20 also has serious faults. When the Harvard median is a B minus, half the Harvard premeds are automatically in serious trouble. The professors refuse to realize that any grade below a B minus virtually insures rejection from medical school (everyone is quick to think of the exceptions, but that just shows how rare they are). The professors are neglecting the national aspect of medical school admissions. Although this is Harvard University, most medical schools across the country do not give special consideration to this fact. They do not have the time to investigate the particular...
...danger of Chem 20, with its median that is inevitably set at a B or B minus, despite anything the professors may tell the class, (such as, "We are prepared to give all of you A's if you master the material.") is that it creates an atmosphere where students are reluctant to help each other, afraid that they will give their classmates a crucial margin of understanding. The environment of students fighting each other in subtle and unsubtle ways is detrimental to academia. The biggest danger from excessive competition in Chem 20 is that it may create a student...
Borden will try to grade his section this Spring fairly, he said yesterday. "People will get what they deserve. I'm not setting the median. It will depend on the performance of the group. The graduate course I taught this fall had an A-median," he said...