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...much should graders be required to have their comments make sense? "I believe in free speech," Knight says. "Teachers are allowed to write whatever they want, but professionally there is a line." Shrier has experienced that line. On his first paper written at Harvard, he wrote an overzealous introduction, declaiming about 'mankind.' He didn't get any comment about his bad introduction, or anything else, he remembers. Instead, the T.F. just circled the word 'mankind' and wrote a "weird cryptic comment that said, 'Use humanity. Though it seems like P.C. mumbo jumbo, they tell me I have to say that...
...overlooked--they are just plain mean. Nicholas K. Davis '99, who is a Crimson editor, recalls his Expos preceptor commenting: "I don't think we're reading the same stories...Let's see if we're sharing some of the same reality." Also on an Expos paper, Sarah A. Knight '00 discovered that her grader "liked this paper in spite of itself." "That's a terrible thing to say," Knight says. "It's not constructive criticism...
...situations are so drastic, though. Shrier, Knight and Davis, despite the various strange things they've had written on their papers, agree that comments on papers are useful and are often a good way to get to know professors. "The teacher's personality shines through in the comments," Shrier says. "For example, [Dorot] Professor [of the Archeology of Israel] Lawrence Stager writes large, rambling, loving mini-essays at the end of each student essay because he's a large, rambling, loving kind...
Janowski's aggressive play continued to pay dividends for the Crimson as she drew a couple of fouls from a frustrated. Lady Knight's defense. She sandwiched three free throws between two Harvard treys, and the Crimson never led by fewer than 15 points the rest...
According to the first-year, Craig Knight, her Matthews proctor, sent out e-mail message advising all students to use greater caution in the future...