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Nevertheless, the grades determined by these two very different methods are used as bases of comparison, as indices of efficiency. Honors are awarded for specified numbers of high marks; probation befalls if certain average grades are not maintained. An A is fallaciously assumed to represent a definite standard of attainment...
Thus far, the path of the critic has been smooth. But the question, what uniform basis can be employed, is not easy to answer. For most subjects, however, the absolute, standard can be eliminated at once--it is utterly inapplicable. This leaves only the relative grading--which is equally inapplicable...
1) All undergraduates who become members of the Junior Class in good standing should be for the remainder of their stay in College automatically released from all paternalistic regulation in their work. In brief this will mean that compulsory attendance at classes and disciplinary measures such as probation will for...
4) No undergraduate in any class should be subject to disciplinary action as the result of hour examinations. With the two upper classes freed from all such action this would mean in effect that no Freshman or Sophomore would be placed on probation for low grades except at the time...
"But what of the man on probation? How about hour exams? We need them to keep us up to scratch. You aren't going to abolish all those? We need help. You talk about students! What will happen to us?" We were desperate in the face of this fool.