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...organizers of Social Relations 148, "Social Change in America," yesterday cancelled plans to have some Harvard undergraduates and one non-Harvard graduate student act as sectionmen for the course...
...said he understood the Committee's question of who would be "running" the course as who would be grading it and answered that he and Harvard graduate students would be responsible for grading. The CEP did not ask him for a list of sectionmen...
...Social Changes in America," is the first Harvard course to be organized and run entirely by undergraduates and graduate students, many of them members of Students for a Democratic Society. Five of the approximately 25 sectionmen scheduled to teach the course are undergraduates. All of them will be working for free, as Harvard reportedly offered to pay for only four teachers...
Grading will be left up to the individual sectionmen and their students. At yesterday's opening, Michael H. Schwartz, a teaching fellow in Social Relations and a course organizer, said that most section-men will refuse to do the grading themselves. He mentioned the possibility of utilizing a "nonsense" grading system. This would involve determining grades in some random manner, such as by lot, completely unrelated to the quality of course work...
...critique drew mixed reviews. Arthur Smithies, Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy, thought it raised economic issues that deserved to be considered seriously. Several Ec 1 sectionmen and former sectionmen said they agreed completely with its criticisms of the course. But Richard T. Gill '48, lecturer in Economics and administrative head of Ec 1 since 1959, didn't like the critique at all, and his opinion was crucial...