Word: classed
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Twenty-three students fulfilled the requirements for Group I, 163 attained Group II, and 303 achieved Group III standing. Also, 295 were in Group IV, 225 in Group V, and 17 in Group VI. The class median was somewhere in high Group...
...June, 102 men had unsatisfactory records and, of these, 26 received severance of connection. Although students from private schools comprise only 43 per cent of the class, the number of "preppies" severed was three times that of public school graduates...
...instructors of the Reading Class (CRIMSON article Monday, November 14) share a concern about the popular fallacy that one either plays the game of "Examsmanship" or acquires "real learning." We are, of course, opposed to superficially, but we find that the term "real learning" when used in this dichotomy frequently refers to a kind of thoroughness lacking perspective and control...
...Reading Class we therefore devote some time to the way in which an examination question, when it is a good one, demands the exercise of learning with perspective and with relevance to an intellectual issue. Within this framework we turn to those procedures in reading through which relevant learning may best be achieved...
...view of this effort in the course, I am at a loss to understand how your reporter could quote me as having characterized the Reading Class as a course in "examsmanship." The Examsman, pure type, is naturally free to derive what hints he can from our consideration of the writing of essays, but we imagine that the scheduling of the class at such unholy hours as 8 a.m. may discourage his too regular attendance. John W. Wideman