[We invite all men in the University to submit communications on subjects of timely interest.]
To the Editors of the CRIMSON:
In your editorial of October 13, you raised a question about the marking system in courses taken by graduates as well as undergraduates. It is true that the less advanced student sometimes finds himself at a disadvantage. For several years the College Rank List has printed the names of undergraduates only. Yet, when a man is so far advanced as to take courses of a "graduate" nature, he must expect to be measured by standards not of progress, but of attainment; for real scholarship means knowledge and the power to use knowledge. It would be as reasonable to award an A to a man who has merely made progress in a course as it would to award an "H" to a football player who is promising, but who has not yet made good. And though the value of "outside" interests is today universally recognized, the man of scholastic ambitions, like the man of athletic ambitions, cannot expect to "eat his cake and have it too." W. C. GREENE '11.
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