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...friend of mine in high-school once had the habit of peppering his exampapers with little academic witticisms, (partly in order to raise his grade). He got one paper back totally uncorrected, except for the single terse remark: "Clover--but not true." This one phrase well strikes the effect of the Martinu quartet. It was dazzlingly clever. As far as I could see, it capitalized on every music sure-fire ever invented: catchy, inclusive rhythms, abrupt changes in tempo, wild polytonality, a string technique which graded off from whole pages of unbearably shrill violin-chatter at some times...
...cannot do. Last year one boy attended about a quarter of the section meetings and a fifth of the lectures in a sociology course, and still ended up with a "B". Another, whose numerical average for the year in Economics A was 86 per cent, got a final grade of "C plus; too many cuts." The printed regulation stretches to include both these extremes. Each course is free to make its own rules on the number of cuts it will allow its students to take, and each section man can more or less freely interpret those rules. This forces...
...section man completely disregarded cuts, Harvard University would become a magnificent correspondence school. If he went to the opposite extreme, student life would be regulated by a voluminous collection of rules definitely stating so many cuts per term, per grade group, per subject. Either of these possibilities is undesirable. Our present system of leaving all judgment to the discretion of the instructor is better, except that it often costs the student an important mark to find out how his section man judges...
Each section man ought to state, in his first meeting, exactly how much class oral work, class written work, and exams are going to count on the year's grade. And if and when he feels that any student is cutting so much that his mark is liable to be lowered, he should let that student know it. The Harvard cut system is so general that the student and the section man must work in close cooperation, if it is to function satisfactorily. As it is now, the clever student often takes advantage of the section man, while the unwary...
...Alabama steelmaker is Republic, which took over volatile Gulf States Steel three years ago. At Gadsden and Thomas, its eleven furnaces, 94 coke ovens are straining to turn out 650,000 tons of steel annually. Republic's district boss, Charles L. Bransford, must worry over his low-grade ore reserves. Instead of envying T. C. I.'s higher-grade ore, he built a pilot mill, is experimenting to find better ways to smelt his resources...