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...Faculty voted yesterday to have instructors file reports on unsatisfactory midterm grades of upperclassmen in large-enrollment courses...
Masters and senior tutors objected at that time that they used the midterm grades as a source of information about students in academic trouble--particularly sophomores. They asked the Administrative Board to draft a plan for reporting midterm grades. Under that plan, marks in courses with more than 25 students will be reported to senior tutors...
Richard T. Gill '48, Master of Leverett House, said yesterday he had reservations about the plan. He pointed out that instructors would not now be required to assign midterm grades, while this reporting has been mandatory in "courses regularly open to freshmen...
Gill said the midterm grades had been particularly useful in detecting sophomores headed for academic difficulty, and in making out graduate school and fellowship recommendations for seniors...
Buoyed by the flood tide of Great Society legislation last fall, Democratic strategists six months ago ventured that November 1966 might prove an exception to the seldom-broken rule that the party in power loses strength in midterm elections. Now, with all 435 House seats, 35 Senate seats and 35 governorships at stake, they are talking gloomily of losing at least 30 seats in the House, a couple in the Senate and at least two statehouses. Even so, Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen figures that the Democrats are being too optimistic. To make his point, he has offered to wager...