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While this is a laudable start, it seems that the administration’s proposal will does not help those students whose final exam falls on the last day of exam period. The UC has proposed a more aggressive plan, calling on Harvard’s administration to allow those seeking H-1B visas alternative means of getting final grades early, such as substituting final papers for exams or giving affected students early exams. If professors were willing to cooperate, given the unforgiving visa system, and submit internationals’ grades early, it would do a great service to students...
...address this, Harvard is sponsoring a small pilot program to allow 24 students in Shanghai to take the exam...
...watched “Pan’s Labyrinth” (“El Laberinto del Fauno” in its native Spanish) the night before a Spanish final exam last semester, thinking a Spanish-language film would help me hablar español más mejor. But, since my shaky beginner skills couldn’t handle the added curveball of a Castellano lisp, I ended up reading the subtitles. The resultant experience felt more useful for my beloved English classes than for my Spanish, however, since it gave me an opportunity to revel in the beautiful...
...course in Scandinavian can provide the “variety of critical and analytical approaches to literature” needed to satisfy the Literature and Arts A requirement. Likewise, tutorials, some of the hardest classes at Harvard, don’t count because they lack a final exam. And because only pedagogical technique matters in Core-world, the material covered has become increasingly specific and trite...
...editors: I was rather disappointed after reading today’s front page piece “For Some, Final Free Exam Period” (Jan. 22). I am primarily annoyed with the portrayal of Stebbins as the stereotypical Harvard student who is unable to think or talk about anything but her schoolwork. While there is a sizable population of students who really cannot talk about anything else, there are also many of us who, by some bizarre stroke of luck or imagination, manage to go to class and do our schoolwork while still cultivating friendships whose bases extend...