December 4, 1998

Giving Better Grades at Better Colleges

To the Editor:

Noel Perrin's essay is as wrong-headed as you can get in rationalizing grade inflation, whether at Dartmouth College or any other institution ("How Students at Dartmouth Came to Deserve Better Grades," Point of View, October 9).

Rather than grading Dartmouth students in comparison with their Dartmouth peers, as was done before grade inflation took hold in the 1970s, Perrin argues that it

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