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...credible explanation, or criticism, of the pattern of rising grades at Harvard must take into account at least the basic realities. The increase in grades did not start in the late 1960s; the graph shows that it was already happening in the 1920s. Indeed, grade inflation was a worry even the 19th century: a special 1894 “Committee on Raising the Standard” rued that “in the present practice Grades A and B are sometimes given too readily,—Grade A for work of not very high merit, and Grade...

Author: By Harry R. Lewis, HARRY R. LEWIS | Title: The Racial Theory of Grade Inflation | 4/23/2001 | See Source »

...renovated ones, the graph patterns are shot to hell--they just go kaflooey," she says...

Author: By Amit R. Paley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Work With HUDS TO Improve Quincy Dining Hall | 2/13/2001 | See Source »

...Look at the chart - this has been on the horizon for a while. From the March peak of 5132 to Friday's close of 3029, the general direction of the NASDAQ graph - what's called the trend line - is a consistent downward slope. It's tested its low of 3026 several times, in May, in October, and last week, and, as technical analysts like to say, "there's no such thing as a quadruple bottom." When the trend line hits the floor, the floor gives way. Then the floor turns into the ceiling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Could the Markets Push Gore to a Concession? | 11/13/2000 | See Source »

...apply the cyber truth serum to our two would-be presidents, I routed their voices directly into a high-end Pentium-equipped computer that was running the Truster 2.4 program. It instantly analyzed the voices and gave out a series of graph readings that clearly delineated the levels of stress, manipulation, excitement and plain old lying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Al and Dubya Take a Shot of Cyber Truth Serum! | 10/18/2000 | See Source »

...laughable front-page graph, for example, purports to compare Project ADAPT's budget to that of Harvard's faculties. A reader glancing at the graph might conclude that we are spending more each year on ADAPT than on the Law School. This is false. In truth, the graph showed total spending for the multi-year Project ADAPT in one bar, next to separate bars for the annual spending of each of the faculties...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 4/3/2000 | See Source »

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