Word: belle
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...objective-seeming scores is always relative to some context and to some philosophy of how best to compare students' worth. Should grades be calculated relative to others students in the class, to those in other classes, or to those in the whole school? And should they follow any statistical bell curve pattern, or is anomaly to be expected from such an unnaturally high-quality population of competitors? This is what the grade inflation debate should be about...
...classes, these fine distinctions are even harder to make. Faced with a pile of papers which are all decently written, grammatical, properly researched and well-reasoned (not too much to expect from the average Harvard student), a grader who "must" fit the actual distribution of students' abilities into a bell-curve model of grade distribution will have no measurable criteria for winnowing students, and will pick the "best" papers based on such concerns as which ones coincided most with the grader's own views and methodology...
...panel will be moderated by Visiting Professor Betty Louise Bell, who currently teaches a Harvard course, "Women of Color...
...other hand, that familiarity, considered with the fellow Currier House residents working the bell desk 24 hours, means the single entry can lead to a lack of privacy...
Drury Lane's Phantom of the Opera. Book by David Bell (who directed the premiere), music by Tom Sivak, with additional airs by someone named Tchaikovsky. Commissioned in June 1991, the show was written, rehearsed and opened by September at the Drury Lane Oakbrook Theater in suburban Chicago. This version, which imagines that the Phantom is the brother of Christine's ordinary beau Raoul, stresses the spectacle and italicizes the sexuality. Christine not only kisses the Phantom after he has removed his mask, she also helps him remove his shirt. The production has flourished in regional theaters; a new edition...