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Weitzman described the $600 compensation as “way inflated?? for a product he said many farmers pay to have taken away, and said he couldn’t fathom how Lane reached such an estimate...

Author: By Samuel C. Scott, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ec Professor Settles in Manure Theft Suit | 8/5/2005 | See Source »

...courses’ reading lists are inflated??taking a regular course load implies upwards of a few hundred pages of reading a week, and part of our self-definition and pride as overachieving students stems from our ability to plough through an entire Henry James novel or Freud treatise in one night. Occasionally professors admit that we are not really expected to read all of the material; and some teaching fellows suggest that the trick is to read one part of the assignment very carefully, and skim the rest. But the assignments remain, and as we rush through...

Author: By Alexander Bevilacqua, | Title: The Culture of Quantity | 10/18/2004 | See Source »

...years ago, Mansfield gave students in his classes two grades, an “inflated?? grade that went on students’ transcripts and one that reflected the “real” value of their work...

Author: By Rebecca D. O’brien, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Professor Fights Grade Inflation, Affirmative Action | 6/2/2003 | See Source »

Professor Mansfield, who also teaches two political philosophy classes, government 1060 and government 1061, implemented a new grading policy for those classes last year, giving each student a “real” grade, and an “inflated??grade that was sent to the registrar...

Author: By Nick Smyth, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mansfield Limits ‘A’ Tutorial Grades | 10/3/2001 | See Source »

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