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...While Harvard College conducts its own exit survey of seniors each year, it does not release the results publicly. But professors who have seen the College’s data say The Crimson’s results closely conform to official statistics...
...equality for all, why are its young deprived of the right to expression in school? Ironically, it is in this very environment that we learn about our freedoms, a setting that teaches us to articulate our thoughts in English class but then stifles our voices if they do not conform to some norm...
...Faculty thinks that grade inflation is a problem, it should be low on its priority list.Finally, on a very basic level, grades should be a representation of the quality of a student’s work. Imposing an artificial standard trivializes grades by forcing a distribution to conform to preconceived notions. Although having a large percentage of high grades may decrease the relative value of such grades in the eyes of graduate schools or potential employers, it would be more misleading to have grades that were unjustifiably and arbitrarily lowered.Like democracy, Harvard’s may be the worst grading...
...take into account that faculty have fully as much at stake in the calendar discussions as do students. There are some, and I count myself among them, who think that our calendar with its January examinations actually poses some pedagogical advantages. The fact that our calendar does not conform to those found in other places is hardly reason in and of itself for change, and I will need to hear a great deal more about the “mental health” argument before I can take it as a serious reason for change. And while we are speaking...
Should Jews try to assimilate? "We Jews have been too eager to sacrifice our idiosyncrasies in order to conform...