Word: ungradedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard is saturated with various forms of independent study at all levels. Its seniors work alone on deep-probing theses. Juniors and sophomores have for many years taken closely supervised tutorials that involve no class work. Even freshmen are allowed to take ungraded seminars in which they develop their own...
According to a department memorandum that will circulate on Tuesday, the new policy will go into effect in January. Isaac Kramnick, head tutor in Government, said that the solution reflects the Government Department's unanimous recommendation that all grades be abolished. But in order to establish a totally ungraded course...
The gas war is still far from over. Independent gas suppliers are growing increasingly aggressive; some of them push their products by using beautiful girls as station-to-station salesmen. "Pirate tankers"-large tanker trucks with two full-sized petrol pumps attached to the rear-now tour main roads to...
One objection to the change is that increasing the number of ungraded courses might make admission to graduate school more difficult. Tutors, it was suggested, might have to write a unwieldy number of letters explaining why the senior tutorial is ungraded.
Maass dismissed this argument yesterday. "Tutors have to write recommendations anyway," he said. In his own experience of admitting graduate students, he continued, there never has been any trouble evaluating graduates of such colleges as Swarthmore and Oberlin "who have more ungraded courses on their transcripts than we do."