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...such courses as Biology A, Chemistry A, and French 2 the cumulative theory tends to fix the Midyear grade as the April mark which goes into the office. For instance, a man receiving a C at Midyear's must get an A or an E in the April examination in order to change his standing in the Dean's Office. This situation destroys, in a large measure, the value of the April records as an index of a student's progress, and relegates the examinations to a mere breaking up of the term's work and a routine check...
...abuses of cumulative grading are two-fold. A man working to have his probation relieved at April with four B's must actually bring his grade not up to B, but to A in order that he may have a B in the office. In other words the Midyear grade turns out to be a halter about the neck of the man who would reasonably better his standing. Conversely, the system enables a man in good standing at Midyears to slide his spring work down to D without any evident loss...
...Italian for admission, must now turn to elementary French or German or both to keep himself from language pro, instead of continuing the study of a literature in which he has been interested and whose least stimulating phase he has surmounted. In this way admission, depending on a certain grade in the language College Boards, should pass off all language requirements...
That the move is a good one and bears watching is unnecessary to say. There is in every class, from the time when it is graduated from Kindergarten and matriculated into the first grade, a certain class consciousness that makes it feel that a leader is necessary, that it must have a president. To destroy this inherent belief would be to take the vitality from the class. What would Harvard classes do without officers to draw up lists of the nominees that shall follow them? What would be more drab than a congratulatory or consolatory letter signed "Member Student Council...
Among the ghosts of the Old or PreTutorials Regime that still rise to plague undergraduates in 1930 is the requirement of April grades in courses taken by Seniors. Students in Chemistry, the only field still holding out against Divisionals, of course have no reason to be excused from course requirements after Midyears of their Senior year; but in all other fields, and particularly with regard to men who are writing honors theses, the present system is more than annoying. The three months between Midyears and Divisionals is a small enough time for two such tasks as writing a thesis...