Word: students
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the present set-up, plusses and minuses have much less importance than many people attach to them. B-plus and B-minus both count as straight B's for rank list ratings and for the student's final record transcripts. The man with a B-plus who has just missed an A has, in a sense, been robbed, while a person with a B-minus has been exalted somewhat out of proportion to his talents...
...unfairness shows up in the case of the student who gets three B-plusses and a C-plus for his term's work. When a percentage scale is set up parallel to the letter grade scale and letters are translated into their numerical equivalents (a process which many section men use in arriving at their letter grades) these grades average out to be about an 85. Yet, this man is placed in Rank Group IV. Another student gets four B-minuses, which is about an 81, and he ends up in Group III, which gives him Dean's List privileges...
...final record transcript. This transcript is one of the essential factors in admission to graduate schools which, like the Scholarship Committee, will not even consider men below a certain academic group. The important signs, plus and minus, are ruthlessly excised by the Registrar's 1BM machine so that the student's scholastic picture consists of a set of solitary alphabet noodles without the soup...
...researchers want general background information and details about the student's college life. Questions will deal with the student's "drinking background" and what his parents think about fraternity beer parties and house parties where alcohol flows freely. Abstainers will be grilled to find out why they turn the stuff down...
Tired of its international notoriety for almost constant inebriation, Yale University yesterday initiated a scientifically distilled poll on student drinking habits in 80 American colleges...