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Last September I attended the first meeting of a Soc Rel 148 section. I went there primarily because I wanted an A. The question of grades was raised almost immediately. Described at best as reflections of Harvard's repressive system, we declared them unnecessary. We were here to learn by free communication and self-expression. The conversation fluctuated between A's and B's. In particular, we filled that first cozy hour with a series of emotional assertions to the effect that none of us gave a damn about grades anyway. Suddenly the instructor remembered something. To make the grade...
Before condemning the alleged reasons which the CRIMSON assigns to Roger Brown's desire for abolishing Soc Rel 148 and 149, it might be interesting to examine the motivating factors behind the large enrollment which these course have enlisted. Bill Patten...
...Rel Department will discuss the future of Soc Rel 148, 149 at an open meeting at 3 p.m. today in William James 1 with Roger Brown, chairman of the department...
...account for other courses on social change within his department, courses with a different point of view on social change from 148 and 149. Brown also brings up arguments on "irregular" grading, "unqualified" sectionmen, "activist" sections. But these arguments have all been heard before, both by the Soc Rel Department and by the Faculty's Committee on Educational Policy--and the courses have been approved and then reapproved...
...decision to stop it would be calamitous for this University. There are 633 students taking 149, learning about the Chinese Cultural Revolution from a man who spent two years there while it was going on, learning about radical organizing from radical organizers, learning theories of social change from Soc Rel and Ed School grad students. The course, for those involved, is a new and exciting educational experience, as well as an exciting personal experience. The course, by any imaginable criterion--enthusiasm, enrollment, achievement--has been an overwhelming success. Perhaps that is why some members of the Soc Rel Department seem...