Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...representation of events is objective insofar as you share in the ideology. One need only listen to a member of Progressive Labor--the sponsors of this showing of Potemkin--tell you what "objectively" happened at an event, as opposed say to what you thought you were experiencing, to know just how useless the word "objective" has become...
...members of the Corporation know that there are House Masters at both Harvard and Radcliffe who would be willing at any time to take charge of coeducational houses," Miss Seligson said...
...many years the Law School has had confidence in the precision with which grades take the measure of the man. "If one fellow got 76 and another 76.5," said Felix Frankfurter, "there's no use saying, 'The 76 man is better.' Maybe so, but how do you know he's better?" For Frankfurter, who entered the school in 1902, Harvard Law was and remained "the most democratic institution I know anything about" largely because everyone's work was measured by the standard f grades. Regardless of background, a man could prove his worth by doing well on first-year exams...
...Interest in the work. The student's initial enthusiasm is dampened, as it is now, by ever-increasing tension. A student would know how he was doing, and would retain confidence that he could continue to develop proficiency over three years. In addition, assignments under the proposed system might become increasingly flexible as the year progressed, so that a student could concentrate on points that particularly interested...
Already, we know of a broadly based concern in our class that the current system of grading is grossly inefficient. Harvard attracts an abundance of first-rate students each year, but has become obsessed with discriminating among us, rather than developing us to our fullest capacities. Fundamental change in the grading system is central to reversing these priorities...