Word: informant
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...practice-filled schedules dramatically. Academic policies disproportionately affect athletes, as they miss class more frequently than most students to play. From early morning practices to the biggest games of the year, student-athletes experience Harvard in a different scope, and College administrators would be well served to better inform their decisions relating to every aspect of student life...
...Gross wrote in an e-mail last month that he and his senior staff use survey results to “inform our priorities.” And, he says, the College is focusing on improving in the areas that student surveys have shown need the most work: faculty contact, advising, and social life...
Looking back on four years of classes has forced me to draw connections, and I see now that a class on film can offer insights into human psychology, a grasp of regulatory economics can inform research proposals for environmental engineering, and in my case, a veritable course catalog of disciplines can offer insight into the relationship between social values and political decision-making. I only wish I’d realized it sooner...
...know it, but throughout the year, any interaction you have with your friendly neighborhood proctor could end up in an evaluation at the admissions office, informing future admissions decisions. Recently, the admissions office was forced to admit, via a mistakenly sent email, that information collected about current freshman, and possibly upperclassmen, may be used to determine who was an “admissions mistake” and who was a treasured find. The email—accidentally sent by a proctor to a Crimson reporter—condemned two students as “so self-centered that they have...
...would also have been illuminating. Paglia’s decided opinions about what makes a poem great inform her analysis in “Break, Blow, Burn,” and she devotes a few pages to her poetic philosophy in her introduction. But the greatness of almost all the poems she discusses here is uncontroversial, so her viewpoint does not emerge as clearly as it could...