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...through it,” she declares. “I do not procrastinate. I plan ahead.” When the topic of grades surfaces, Brown pauses, and an unusual silence fills the air. She nervously twists her long blonde hair and eventually divulges that she won the Detur Award last year for being one of the top students in her first-year class. “I don’t want to sound like I’m bragging!” she says...
After coming to Harvard in 1994, Saran became an active presence in the Harvard’s Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters’ Alliance and was awarded a Detur Prize in 1996 for general academic distinction. As a senior, Saran was appointed to the Phi Beta Kappa academic honors society...
This past week, Harvard College alerted 57 sophomores that they had not actually won the Detur Prize, a $35 book embossed with the Detur and Harvard seals given for first-year academic achievement. These 57 students had been notified in August that they would be recipients of this award. This confusion over the winners of the Detur Prize alerts us to two major problems here at Harvard...
However, there are two other possibilities. It is possible that Harvard’s 15-point grading scale is too confusing for even Harvard to decipher. Or maybe Harvard just isn’t as smart as we thought it was. Therefore, The Crimson rescinds Harvard’s Detur prize. Take that...
...Detur Prize books were first purchased in 1637 using money given to Harvard College by Edward Hopkins...