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...extra preparation. According to the logic of standardized tests, this means that these students are 12.5 percent smarter than before the course, that they have gained immense knowledge from practicing analogies repeatedly. This, however, seems improbable. In many ways, knowledge cannot be measured by filling in bubbles for three hours??especially in the humanities and social sciences. Even ignoring the fact that the tests are inherently flawed, they are also simply redundant; the means to measure accountability already exists through the process of accreditation. This process, which is carried out at pre-ordained intervals by a regional governing...
...eventually pushed the anti-Catholic, anti-Irish bias out of the mainstream of American thought.In my senior year of high school, members of our Gaelic Society marched with the Ancient Order of Hibernians (AOH) in the great parade up Fifth Avenue. We stood in the biting cold for hours??and then marched for hours more—as an awful mix of rain and snow blew south into our faces. Despite the terrible weather, hundreds and hundreds of AOH members turned out to walk behind their banner, smiling despite the cold and the stinging wind. As I joined...
...while we are the first to acknowledge Harvard’s problems—our decrepit curriculum, our rogue faculty, and our paltry dining hall hours??even these seemingly weighty faults cannot remove Harvard from its 370-year-old position atop academia...
...story begins... in New Jersey. Dun, dun, dun. Therein, Brenda Martin (Julianne Moore, “The Hours??) walks into a hospital and says that her car has been car jacked in the local projects. And her son was inside. Or so she tells Detective Lorenzo Council (Samuel L. Jackson, “Pulp Fiction”) the bad-ass police officer, whose beat includes that project...
...subcommittee of the Committee on House Life (CHL) charged with examining dining hall hours and interhouse restrictions did not reach a consensus on the extension of dining hall hours in its meeting yesterday. Prospects for later dining hall hours??—the primary goal of the student members of the committee—appeared slim. Executive Director of Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) Ted A. Mayer and HUDS Director for Finance, Information Systems, and Procurement Raymond R. Cross detailed the costs of four possibilities for the extension of hours proposed at the last meeting, but argued that...