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...order to meet this requirement, Board readers in English will be instructed to examine particularly the composition part of every book in English where the total grade is under sixty per cent, and to indicate whether the candidate may be regarded as doing passable work in English composition, even though he may not be credited with English as a whole. The subject may not be counted toward admission, of course, until the whole of English is passed with a grade of sixty per cent of higher...
...follows that if grades are not to be used for these purposes-that is for deciding honors or discipline-they have little use at all,-except for the harmless and desirable service of indicating to the student his approximate standing. And if its is true that scholarships are awarded for marked excellence and rarely depend on the mere difference of a grade-which ought to be true if it is not-the only practical purpose for which grades are necessary is determining probation-the one ting which absolutely should not depend on unreliable, unstandardized marks...
English 31 and English 22 will be made parallel courses. For admission to either of them, a student must have anticipated English A with a grade of A or B, or have attained a grade of A or B in English A or D. It is open also to other men in the first three groups of the Rank List who convince the instructor that they have adequate literary ability, and to other students who have show marked literary ability. In discussing the last provision Professor J. L. Lowes G. '03, newly appointed Chairman of the Department, explained that...
...questioned, however, whether the elimination of English 6 is altogether wise. There are, every year, a certain number of men who cannot attain higher than a C grade in English A, and yet who honestly and undoubtedly need further practise in composition. As these men are ineligible for more advanced courses, the new program will be English D, which cannot be counted toward a degree...
Professor Perry's contribution to the mechanics of the experiment is his system of marking. On this test he will not use the old alphabet method of scoring, but will grade only with an "S+", "S" and "S--", standing for above average, average, and below average...