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...letter dated March 26 to Arthur MacEwan, head sectionman for the course, Edward T. Wilcox, director of the program of General Education, wrote that "the CEP felt that the Faculty must maintain its responsibility for the certification of the A.B. degree and that some measure of comparative performance is necessary in order to make this certification possible." The letter also says that "academic performance which is not measured against a uniform standard can quickly deteriorate to a system of personal patronage...
...MacEwan announced the CEP's decision to the members of Soc Sci 125 at a course meeting yesterday. The staff of the course discussed alternative responses to the letter at a regularly scheduled meeting last night. They came to no decision, MacEwan said, but will continue the discussion in section meetings...
...aware of a significant amount of support in this endeavor, and would urge other Faculty members who would like grades abolished in their courses to join us in this petition. Those interested in more information should contact Arthur MacEwan, extension 4560. Also, we would like to point out that some aspects of the generally favorably CRIMSON editorial on the subject (March 5) significantly misrepresented both the nature of our course and our position on grading...
...would question, however, that Harvard students come from generally high-income families. Mr. MacEwan, however, draws the conclusion that "the survey provides an economic lesson about the tie between education and income." I would suggest that to turn "Harvard" into "education" is a gross distortion. It is ironic, also, since so many Harvard "radicals" think they know much more than anyone else about the nation's problems...
...survey provides an economic lesson about the tie between education and income," Arthur MacEwan, instructor in Economics and head of the course, said. "There is such a difference between the distribution curves for Harvard and those for the national averages that it is difficult to get them on the same graph," he added...