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Concerned that student writing suffers from neglect outside Expository Writing classes, Expos Director Richard C. Marius is offering professors and teaching fellows a lesson in grading.
The average instructor's grading rates about a C-plus or a B-minus, Marius said yesterday, citing a need for stricter standards and more explicit commentary.
In an effort to help graders make the grade, Marius sent each department copies of his own 10-page "Guide To Grading Papers at Harvard" earlier this year and offered to run private seminars on the subject.
The professor's autocratic exercise of authority in eliminating the radical sections, and its implications for the freedom of section leaders to offer alternatives to traditional economic views, can only damage the quality of learning for students in the course. Section leaders do most of the teaching, all of the...
My personal reward for being Gromyko's adviser was that I became a member of the nomenklatura hierarchy. This is a list of the most important posts in the party, government administration and other institutions. These positions are filled by direct party appointment or with party approval. Nomenklatura is a...