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47 Harv. L. Rec. 1 (1968)

handle is hein.journals/hlrec47 and id is 1 raw text is: aitR # Old&aL huu Schad 9teWpaeA. VOL 47 NO. I CAMBRIDGE, MASS., SEPTEMBER 12. 1968 FIFTEEN CENTS Grades Zoom Under New System- Four Out of Five Receive B Average Dean Addresses 1st Year Class (See Page 2) Salaries Soar Upward Law firms from Atlanta to Los Angeles are steadily upgrading the salaries of start- ing associates in response to a New York law firm's statement last February that it would pay associates $15,000 per year. A month after the Cravatl, Swaine & Moore announcement, the starting salary out- look was still cloudy. A management con- sulting firm, Daniel S. Cantor, surveyed 140 law firms and found only eight that were planning to match the $15,000 starting sal- ary. Twenty-four of the firns had starting (Continued on Page 15) 'Intenional Inflation' The new grading system, in its first year of application, has accomplished its intended inflation of averages: the B average is now Harvard Law's mean, with four of every five students making B or better. Under the new system over 76 per cent of the first year students and almost 81 per cent of the second year class made at least a B average (not including those making B-). This year's super-averages, in terms of letter grades the highest ever given at the Law School, are the product of student pres- sure against the former system under which many exceptionally bright students were making C averages. Formerly nearly half a typical class had C averages or less. At a meeting on May 14, 1968, the fac- ulty, in response to recommendations by the .Joint Student Faculty Committee, approved the elimination of class rank, except for such internal purposes as awarding academic prizes and determining membership in the three honoraries. It also voted to abolish official grade averages, except for determin- ing cure laude, magna curn laude, and summa cum laude. Most significantly, the faculty converted (Continued on Page 5)

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