Word: seavey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...minority report charged, however, that Committee members had obtained their information on the workability of various grading systems from Professor Warren A. Seavey '08, himself a Committee member. "If we (the Committee) had asked other members of the faculty for opinions, we might have found that there was another system possible," the report stated...
Nothing the brevity of your report of the most recent Harkness coffee hour but realizing a news report is perhaps not an appropriate place for the distribution of bouquets, I wish to take this opportunity to congratulate Messrs. Seavey and Toepfer for their excellent defense of the grading system here. Their command of the fact situation, the appealing presentation of their case, and the complementary play between them was a case in point for the merits of the "Harvard Law School discipline...
...whether absurd suggestions or not, they were rather varied, whereas the counsel for the faculty seemed quite united in their contention that whatever is is about the best that can be done. The expertise of Mr. Toepfer was not subject to review; and the wit of Mr. Seavey was already res judicata. With appropriate moderation by faculty counsel during the course of the discussion, judgment for the faculty seemed to be a foregone conclusion...
...attack by students on the system of numerical grading drew a reply from another speaker, Warren A. Seavey '02, Bussey Professor of Law. Seavey defended the School's numerical grading by saying that "numbers, because they can be averaged, are much easier for an instructor to work with than letters...
Judges chose the Jaffe Club as the second finalist team in the law School's Ames Competition Wednesday night, Jaffe won an unanimous victory over the Seavey Club and the right to oppose the Baker-Smith Club next April in the final mock trial...