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...would extend to everyone the privilege of a free fifth course -- now reserved to juniors and seniors taking honors tutorial. And it would supposedly attract students who want to experiment with a course they wouldn't ordinarily take, and who want some recognition of it on their transcript, but don't want to risk a bad grade...
...student could do as much work as he chose for any number of extra courses, and if by the end of the term he felt that he was well prepared, he could take the final exam. If he passed the final, he would get a "pass" designation on his transcript without being responsible for any of the other course requirements. If he failed the final, or chose not to take it, no record of his connection with the course would be kept...
...fifth course must be ungraded. A student will specify the course on his study card, and will receive either a "pass" or "fail" designation on his transcript. (Those enrolled in tutorial for credit will still be able to take a graded fifth course...
There is no more reason for PBK to be bound by the sum of random variables numerically coded on a transcript than there is for the admissions committee of Harvard College to be bound by its applicants' high school grades and College Board scores. Grades, whether of course work, generals, or theses, are humanly devised estimates of human performances, and are therefore themselves always subject to further human evaluation...
...world will be an infinitely safer place when the self-conscious Soviets grow up enough to accept genuine criticism. That they have not done so is amply documented in this transcript of the trial last February of two Russian "underground" writers accused of slandering the Soviet system (TIME, Feb. 18). Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel, both 40 and both widely read, had been smuggling pseudonymous manuscripts to the West since 1956 under the names Abram Tertz and Nikolai Arzhak. When the KGB arrested them last fall, the world expected a quick, quiet, Stalinesque show trial, in which the pair would...