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After receiving the most comprehensive report on grading policy compiled in recent decades, several department chairs said yesterday that they recognize a serious need to curb Harvard grade inflation.
Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 said the variance in grading among departments is a problem that must be addressed.
The report finds that though the upward grading trend has occurred across all academic divisions, it has been particularly prevalent in the humanities, reaffirming a common concern. About 54 percent of undergraduates in humanities courses received an A or A- last year, compared with 50 percent of students in the...
Fitzsimmons said Harvard has admitted students with no grades, because they were home-schooled or attended a secondary school without a grading system, but added that “we need as much information as we can possibly get for students.”
We will let other Potterphiles debate the movie's excision of the book's spooky Halloween party, or its use of a Sorting Hat that speaks its musings aloud instead of whispering them conspiratorially into the wearer's ear, or its slight cuting up of the officious Hermione. All that...