Word: discards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...psychological effects are not really considered too important, for while the College is ready to provide advice, and psychiatric help if necessary, it will scarcely discard an entire educational framework to solve problems it considers essentially personal. Change will only come if teachers and students feel that more can be learned, in some circumstances at least, without grades...
...fortunate enough to keep most of the budget, with the program which nobody wants to discard, but there is no chance at all for a school construction bill or for civil rights legislation...
...primary factors in Lowell's advocacy of fields of concentration to replace free electives, and there appears to be no specific disaffection with competition now. When grades present individual psychological problems, the College will offer advice, and psychiatric help if necessary, but it will scarcely discard an entire educational framework to solve problems it considers essentially personal. Any change must come because teachers, and even students, feel that more will be learned without grades, but not because of current psychiatric evidence...
They believe that grades have a great prediction value, and they will not readily discard them. Some, like Education School Dean Francis Keppel '38, doubtless feel "that American education is not only a system of education, but of selecting people for various walks of life...
...fine record of their graduates, even when measured in such strictly academic terms as high per cent of graduate school admissions or fellowship awards, does not establish the applicability of their system to large numbers of students. Swarthmore's the most thorough in its discard of grades, includes only about 200 students, and these are drawn from a group of 900 which is already about as highly selected as Harvard...