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...recently unveiled plan would overhaul both the verbal and math sections of the test, replacing analogies with an essay-writing section and adding questions in more advanced topics of mathematics. The goal of these changes, ostensibly, is to make the test more relevant as an objective test of aptitude in the college admissions process. Unfortunately, this attempt to amend the SAT and restore its flagging credibility with institutions of higher learning does nothing to address its most crucial problems...
...Adams, who is also a Crimson editor, said he had a midterm, an essay, a response paper and a quiz last week, recruited fans and assistants to help with the execution of his role. He sent his friends a mass e-mail pleading for their help with clothes, coaching and shopping...
...early, rude awakening as to what was going on. In my freshman year at Princeton I studied with Mary Douglas, a famous anthropologist who had just come to America after many years in the British system. At the end of my first paper she wrote, “Excellent essay,” and under that was an initial grade of B. However, the “B” had been erased and replaced with an “A.” In Professor Douglas’ academic training a B probably represented a very good mark...
...next year I chose a seminar with an extremely nice visiting professor who had the soul of a poet and the backbone of a garden slug. I was surprised to get back one particularly shoddy essay with the final mark of “A.” At first I rationalized the grade, deciding that my work must have stood out because the seminar included several legendary stoners. One of them, known to his peers as the Bazooka (because he was often heavily loaded), differed from Bill Clinton in that he had never actually exhaled. But at semester?...
...Father is indeed an essay on paranoia that Broadwater interprets brilliantly. In fact, the success of the play comes most forcefully from the outstanding cast, in particular the nuanced portrayals of the Captain and his wife...