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Grade inflation would be a problem in several situations—if grades were so inflated that it became impossible for students to distinguish themselves from their peers, for example. Or if grades became so inflated that graduate schools, employers and fellowship committees were unable to discern the good, the bad and the ugly among students’ academic performances. Yet another scenario: grades became so inflated that students at other universities began to assume an advantage over Harvard students because their A’s were perceived as being more “legitimate” than ours...
...Harvard Syndrome” in his Nov. 5 column in The Crimson. Douthat referred to jealousy and corresponding feelings of antipathy by people outside Harvard, each with their own personal axe to grind against our fair University. In reality, people in positions of authority (employers, fellowship committees, etc.) indicate by their actions that they do not consider our grades any less impressive than similar grades attained by students at other colleges—in fact, quite the contrary. As evidence, one need look no farther than Harvard’s traditionally disproportionate number of Rhodes and Marshall scholars, of students...
Pike had been in Buenos Aires on a fellowship, working at a venture capital firm that specialized in investing in small businesses in developing areas in order to promote development...
...Russian composer's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, was scratched on account of Sept. 11. Just six weeks later, though, the pianist got a jaw-dropping phone call that wiped out all the disappointment and then some. He learned he had been tapped for a coveted MacArthur Fellowship, the $500,000 "genius grant" awarded for brilliance above and beyond the call of duty, a prize never before given to a classical performer. (Previous arts fellows include avant-garde jazzman Ornette Coleman, modern-dance choreographer Mark Morris, indie filmmaker John Sayles and The Lion King's Julie Taymor...
...charismatic characters with whom everyone can relate? Her witty, brisk dialogue? Her tongue-in-cheek humor? Her vivid descriptions? Her fantastical names and whimsical jargon? Or, more likely, have kids simply exhausted the worlds of C.S. Lewis’ Narnia Chronicles and J.R.R. Tolkien’s Ring Fellowship and even that staple of childhood fantasy, Roald Dahl, welcoming J.K. Rowling’s more approachable—and more marketable—Hogwarts...