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...have undertaken contractual and technical steps to restrict possible misuse” of personal data, the document reads, “we of course cannot and do not guarantee that all Platform Developers will abide by such agreements.” “It’s a gentleman??s agreement,” said Christopher Soghoian, an Indiana University graduate student and a blogger on privacy and security issues for CNET.com. “But as Adrienne Felt’s study shows, developers are getting access to far more stuff then they need. There...
...fifty years ago provides a healthier academic and social model for us to follow. A substantive core curriculum ensured undergraduates learned math and read Shakespeare and Plato. Hyper-competitive students moderated themselves through a custom that shunned egoistic ambition. Grade inflation hardly existed, for earning a “Gentleman??s ‘C’” was no mark of shame—indeed, everyone already understood that a Harvard degree meant something...
Grade inflation—that Loch Ness monster of Harvard perennially sighted by those who recall the days of the “Gentleman??s C”—has yet again reared its head. In a letter to the Faculty of Arts and Science last week, Dean of Harvard College Benedict H. Gross ’71 provided updated statistics that drew him to the conclusion that “grade compression continues to be a concern.” His evidence: Over half of the grades awarded to undergraduates were...
...service role for the University to play. That spirit of civic dedication—something that has really disappeared from campus today—even manifested itself among rabid pacifists. The writer John Dos Passos ’16, for example, felt compelled to volunteer for “gentleman??s ambulance corps”—until his father vetoed it. During the First and Second World Wars, Harvard’s ROTC units used to train under the elms of Harvard Yard...
...legacy preferences allowed applicants with “weaker credentials” to gain acceptance to Harvard. Tell any Harvard student that you’re a beneficiary of legacy admissions and he’ll assume that you’re a polo-playing Porcellian Club member with gentleman?...