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...filing of upperclass attendance records in the Dean's Office was officially abolished yesterday as the faculty approved further relaxation of attendance rules. This vote will immediately eliminate attendance-taking from about six courses...
While report of upperclass attendance in these courses satisfies a Dean's hankering for data, it certainly defies consistency. No one marks the roll at upperclass lecture courses. It is presumed that after a year's exposure to the Harvard lecture system, students know how much they can gain from it. They may prefer to spend the lecture hour doing the reading or sipping coffee, and as long as the practice doesn't lead to probation, it's their privilege...
...Dean's office, it would now take a clerical miracle to get this attendance data to each Senior Tutor's office, so the Administrative Board is considering stripping upperclassmen's daycards of the attendance box. But the Board, and its advisors on the Student Council, still want upperclass attendance taken, to be stored for "future reference" in the Registrar's office...
They give two reasons: First, that course monitors could not avoid counting upperclass noses unless all the upperclassmen sat together. While such segregation is undesirable, it is also unnecessary. Upperclassmen can be assigned seats with no obligation to dutifully occupy them, and the course monitors can simply leave these places blank on their seating charts, to be filled in only if the upperclassman is on probation...
...long as some change in upperclass attendance is necessary, it might as well be consistent and complete. To show their faith in the upperclassman's ability to budget his time, the Deans should abolish upperclass attendance records altogether...