Word: cetera
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Take the bell curve for example. Students sit down for lecture on the first day, and their grades have already been determined. True, each individual has not yet been given a grade, but the number of A’s, A-‘s, et cetera, is already decided. If grades are supposed to be a measure of each student’s eventual mastery of the course material, how can a professor have figured out the grades before students have even been taught? The bell curve requires that professors have the skills of Carnac the Magnificent...
...about placing students on departmental hiring committees, was the point that the campaign least effectively elaborated on. When asked about how he would provide input to faculty about this initiative at the official debate, Moore answered, “Particular methods of input will include email, phone calls, et cetera.” Honest, but apparently not presidential...
...grand and dignified English gentleman. Think of that sonorous, burnished voice, those proud, aristocratic features. Then try and imagine him writing "[The] young men are certainly attractive, and of course they are mad costume and uniform fetishists, so my eye was continually titillated with corduroy, breeches, jackboots, et cetera!" That frisson of conflict between public and private man is part of the irresistible appeal of Gielgud's Letters, published this week. The 800-plus missives, written between 1912 and 1999, reveal a complex, often outrageous, character. Not only is Gielgud open to his closest confidantes about his sexual proclivities...
...assessment for the first phase of Allston development (25 years),” Berman wrote in an e-mail. “The fund being raised by this assessment is an infrastructure fund, and so will be used for infrastructure: land acquisitions, roads, utilities, site cleanup, buildings, et cetera...
Berman said it is not yet known how much the construction of the Allston campus will ultimately cost Harvard, as “the planning process is in early stages, and the cost will depend on decisions about program, what types of buildings, et cetera...