Word: sections
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This, and other problems, will continue to be discussed in the section man's seminar. We have great hope that the seminar will be an important aid in giving the students a course which will be interesting and useful. We would like, in fact, to invite all students to come to the meetings...
...Students in sections graded for class participation often feel that they are competing for the attention and approval of the section...
Since they cannot get grades abolished, staff members want a system "substantially separated from the student's performance in the course." This bit of euphemistic phrasing means a nonsense or random grading system: pulling grades out of a hat or giving everyone in a section the same grade. Individual sectionmen have been surreptitiously deviating from the merit grading system for years. But now the 148 sectionmen have brought the whole issue into the open...
...SECOND ISSUE involves the academic credentials required of section leaders and, in a broader sense, the use and misuse of teaching fellows. As a rule, only teaching fellows (or others with Corporation appointments) are allowed to lead and grade sections. Since 14 of the 24 section leaders in 148 are not Harvard Arts and Sciences graduate students, they are ineligible for appointments as teaching fellows. They have, nevertheless, put more into the theory and practice of being a section leader than have any group of sectionmen before them. It would be a great service to the College if their "Teacher...
...better suited to lead a section? The undergraduate who has no other teaching duties and who is dedicated to the course. Or the graduate student who, though he may have the best intentions, has neither time nor profound commitment...