Word: mid-term
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...Faculty of Arts and Sciences yesterday voted down an Administrative Board motion to reinstate mid-term grades as a peacetime mobilization measure. It did, however, vote to waive the requirement of a General Examination at mid-year for qualified students who were prevented from taking the spring exam because of military service...
Both the Administrative Board and the Student Council had supported the measure to require mid-term grades in under-graduate courses over the objection of the Committee on Educational Policy...
This proposal was rejected by the Faculty on the grounds that since students are now deferred until the end of a term or year, mid-term grades were not required at present. Many Faculty members also felt that a return to mid-term grades would unnecessarily interfere with the educational policy and practices of numerous departments and professors...
Provost Buck issued a seven-point preliminary mobilization blueprint in September. At that time the Provost did not believe cumulative credits would be necessary for this year. The Administrative Board, of which Buck is chairman, also rejected the idea of reinstituting cumulative credits. The plan for mid-term grades was added to Buck's recommendations...
...must balance the undoubted benefit of making men work still harder against the disadvantages of forcing a system of mid-term marks on the professors who thus far have found it unadvisable. Besides, current draft policy has already put a new premium on hard work and good marks...