Word: midyears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...such courses as Biology A, Chemistry A, and French 2 the cumulative theory tends to fix the Midyear grade as the April mark which goes into the office. For instance, a man receiving a C at Midyear's must get an A or an E in the April examination in order to change his standing in the Dean's Office. This situation destroys, in a large measure, the value of the April records as an index of a student's progress, and relegates the examinations to a mere breaking up of the term's work and a routine check...
...abuses of cumulative grading are two-fold. A man working to have his probation relieved at April with four B's must actually bring his grade not up to B, but to A in order that he may have a B in the office. In other words the Midyear grade turns out to be a halter about the neck of the man who would reasonably better his standing. Conversely, the system enables a man in good standing at Midyears to slide his spring work down to D without any evident loss...
Cumulative marking to accomplish its desired aims should be an average made at the end of the year. Only this way can the full credit be given for each day's work. But in such courses as make the April grade dependent on Midyear standing the April examinations are functionless red tape...
Earle Stanley Randall '33, of Rockland is the recipient of the Elizabeth Wilder Prize it was announced yesterday at University Hall. This prize, an annual award of $100, is awarded to the Freshman who passes the highest examination in elementary German at the midyear examinations; it is one of the most valuable prizes available for Freshmen. The prize was established under the will of Elizabeth Wilder...
...ultimate abolition of all course requirements for Seniors after Midyears is not so remote a possibility as it was a few years ago; but it is a more that still demands considerable deliberation before it is adopted, and that is naturally impracticable as long as there is any field without Divisionals. In the meantime, the existing unjust and excessively difficult concentration of labor in the last half year of the Senior year should be corrected as far as possible. Men writing theses for honors should be excused from all courses excepts such as are necessary for completion of their Distribution...