Word: grading
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There are a couple of ways in which grading 75 finals is even worse than it seems. Although each exam, by itself, takes about half an hour to grade, it's not as if you can keep grading two exams an hour all day. "I can only do about an hour at a time, without things starting to blur," Brinkley says. "The time is not only time you spend grading, but the time you spend resting...
Based on the improvement evidenced in January, the team rates a "B+" at the mid-season mark, but that grade should definitely improve as the season progresses. Of the 11 remaining regular season contests, the Crimson should win at least eight, as the schedule becomes immeasurably easier, qualify for the ECAC tournament, and perhaps even cause some trouble. Like Monday against BU in the Beanpot, perhaps...
Modern scholars have noted one important detail here: the parallel between Kalypso's loom and the loom of Penelope, roughly corresponding to the grade on a paper and the grade on the final exam, respectively. There are two interpretations of the water: either it is Odysseus's exam, which he will overcome only with the help of Leukothea's magic veil (corresponding to present-day crib notes), or it is a symbol of Odysseus's knowledge, and thus the source of his consternation, "barren...
Actually, Fisher's back room is far off the main stream of grade-grubbing and competition, and Fisher himself does not thrash any students on to professional reward back here. Amid what David Riesman '31, Ford Professor of Social Science, calls the disturbing consequences the preprofessional scramble is having on Harvard College, back here in the very boiler room of student aspiration--the office of career services--Fisher excuses himself from the turnmoil. He has not witnessed "avarice," he says, and the term "preprofessional scramble" is just too imprecise. Even the carrot and the stick, he says, are a gift...
...Bill's athletic prowess is famous back home in Wallingford, Pennsylvania. In fifth grade, Bill played defensive back and halfback on what became the first of his many championship teams, the 115-lb. Terriers. The next year the Terriers won the championship again, undefeated and unscored upon. People began to speculate about his school career...