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Indeed, some faculty and students contend that grade inflation occurs as naturally as monetary inflation...
First, those kids at Phillips Brooks House (PBH) have been doing a great job. They've had to contend with a forced restructuring of their organization by an administration that has ignored many of their interests. They deserve staff members who are directly accountable to them. Santa will give newly appointed PBH administrator Dean Judith Kidd a pink slip...
This semester, Professor Sacvan Bercovitch has had to contend with dozens of rude students in his Literature and Arts A class, the Myth of America. Many of them sleep or chat with their friends during his lectures, or rustle their papers and books loudly as they leave fifteen minutes early. Santa will wire every seat in Science Center B to an eject switch at the podium. Then Professor Bercovitch can blast those who do not wish to pay attention clear out to Loker Commons...
...will contend that he dominated the first half of the century and greatly influenced the second half and though there may be figures that are greater, he is central to any American thought," said Galbraith, who has advised several presidents...
Opponents of the billboards contend that the signs incur structural damage on the buildings they adorn. Architects have attributed the deterioration of the Wursthaus building in Harvard Square partially to the stress from the billboard atop...