The Drag Problem

To the Editor of the CRIMSON:

I have come back to Harvard after three year's absence and am very puzzled by one thing, the fact that instructors in small courses are judges in their own cause. It is not that they are unfit to judge impartially of scholarship. No one can suggest this. The difficulty is that their marking the abilities of the students they teach makes it impossible for those students to discuss their work with them without feeling that they may be either corrupting their judges or giving themselves away. Could not there be a division of the work of teaching and evaluating the result of teaching, merely to make the instructor more accessible? R. W. Hale, Jr. 1G.