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Education: "In addition to the modern grade and high schools, a technical school has been opened at Haifa; and the entire system is about to be crowned with the Hebrew University* on Mount Skopos, near the Mount of Olives...
Together will this is has been announced that all men who received an average grade of B or better for their courses at mid-years are at once entitled to the privileges of the Dean's list. The letters from the Dean in acknowledgement of the fact will probably not be out until March 15. Those men who have been on this list, however, and whose grades at the mid-years did not maintain the standard are automatically denied its privileges...
...seems cruel to disillusion young and hopeful natures. The time has now come, however, when, in the interest of their progress in the useful arts, all Freshmen should be told that there is No such grade...
Yesterday's editorial entitled "King Grade" was destructive in its criticism. It deplored the present over-emphasis on the grading system; and it pointed out that as long as the College office does not recognize the tutorial work performed by a student in judging his scholastic rank, there is no motive urging him to do the reading suggested by his tutor. The result is that the tutorial system tends to lead a cramped and somewhat unhealthy existence. Once the truth of this observation becomes apparent, the way is open for constructive thought...
There is abundant room for discrimination in such a plan. "Satisfactory" will be reported only after a consideration of all factors by the tutors. Nor have classifications the discouraging rigidity of an alphabetical grade system. In time, when the present overemphasis on course grades becomes a memory only a student's scholastic rank will rest simply upon a report of "satisfactory" or "unsatisfactory" on both his course and his tutorial work. The absurd preoccupation with delicately shaded course grades which now descends like a plague on the College at examination periods will them be a horror of the past. Some...