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...It’s a capped district. License times [are] frozen in the Square,” said James Rafferty, Grafton Street’s lawyer, who explained that the bar was able to bypass the cap by going directly to the City Council with its request before going to the Licensing Commission...
Thanks to a new cap on honors approved by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in May of 2002, magna and summa awards will be limited to 20 percent of the class, and no more than 50 percent of the class will be allowed to graduate summa, magna or cum laude...
...establishment of an honors cap was the culmination of the fervor over honors and grade inflation that began in 2000-2001, after a series of stories in The Boston Globe focused nationwide attention on the alleged problem...
Even without the cap on honors in place, the impending change and the discourse on Harvard’s grading policies may have affected honors recommendations for the Class...
Woods says he thinks the cap will make students more likely to take easier classes and enter easier concentrations because they will be focused on maintaining the GPA necessary to graduate with honors...