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...officials to suspend him for "taking a tow"-grabbing the saddlecloth of a horse going past him. Last week Jockey Coucci was reinstated. He quickly set about improving his percentage of winners-19 for the season to Mills's 22-by bringing Mrs. Isabelle Dodge Sloan's Snap Back home for a $1,000 purse at Laurel...
...there is no doubt but that fur will fly in the 37th meeting of the two aggregations. Brown sees its first real chance of a victory over Yale since 1926, while the Blue players, on the other hand, realize that it is practically their last opportunity to snap out of the lethargy in which they have hitherto been sunk. A drastic switching around of the Blue linemen has apparently pepped up the Elis considerably, while leaving them with the same old backfield of Parker, Crowley, Lassiter, and Levering. On the whole, the odds are about even on the clash; Brown...
...there are plenty of others. And of course the strictures on snap courses apply with equal force to fields of concentration in which degrees with honors are granted too generously...
...existence of snap courses is responsible in no small degree for the disrepute of scholarship. For one thing, an indiscriminate distribution of A's inevitably lowers the value of an honor grade--if it does not deprive it of all significance whatever. An important incentive to mature scholarship is thereby greatly weakened. What is worse, snap courses cheapen the whole character of academic work. They parody true scholarship and bring university study into contempt...
...long must it be dealt with seriously. If the University is not going to the extreme of abolishing course grades altogether, it ought to make certain that those grades in every case mean something definite about a student's grasp of a subject. The fact that in a few snap courses an honor grade indicates no real mastery of the field cannot fail to have a bad effect on the whole scholastic standard of the college...