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Lately, some Faculty members (including at least one Allston Burr Senior Tutor) and even undergraduate PBK members have also complained sub rosa about Harvard's chapter of PBK. Disgruntled with some choices, they have criticized election procedures...
...Junior Eight and Senior Sixteen, the candidates are those with the highest grade averages in their class; there are slightly more than twice as many of them as there are places to fill. The electors have before them each candidate's grade average and grade distribution, the comments of tutors and Senior Tutor, the extracurricular activities (of which the House office is aware), the courses taken, and the grade received in each...
...calculated to five digits, and they must pretend that an A instead of an A- in this course or that is a sure sign of intellectual capacities better employed. They have to play this game because academic achievement is defined as the principal criterion of intellectual capacity. If the tutor's comments are uninformed and uninformative, as they often are, and no undergraduate member knows the candidate, grades are the only bit of information left...
...Senior Tutor X, let us call him, devotes much time and care to preparing recommendations for the candidates in his House. The morning after the election, he finds that the choices have conformed strictly to neither grades nor his recommendations. To eliminate this funny business, he would like elections to PBK postponed from their present premature dates in the Harvard career, to the end of the senior year when all academic scores are in. He would like the decisions made by professors, or at least the "Graduates," acting on the presumption that election is based on numerical rank unless there...
...each candidate about his interests before the elections of the Eight and Sixteen. Unless a candidate leads his class, if no one in PBK knows him he is at a severe disadvantage. Perhaps he is doing independent work, connected with or unrelated to his field, that not even his tutor knows about. Perhaps his tutor doesn't know him, as is usually the case with mathematicians. On the other hand perhaps he studies nothing but Serbo-Croatian, his major, all day and all night...