Word: lump
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hate it. I hate getting a B+. For me, it means I've done nothing particularly worthwhile," growls Nathan E. Lump '96, who says he's trying to "break the B+ barrier." Mourns Michael B. Smith '97, "It's so darn close to an A." Some even refuse to discuss the issue. Just ask Iris Y. Carrillo '96 to say something about the B+. "No," she'll retort. "It depresses me." Others tell stories of near tragedy. "A friend of mine got a B+ on an essay, and he was almost suicidal," says Hanna M. Pasula '96. "I thought...
...Lump comments on the cross-departmental metamorphosis of the B+. "There's a big difference between a B+ on an English paper and on a chem test. [With the chem test] you're dealing with numbers. You're dealing with right and wrong answers, so a B+ is just a gradation. It can be somewhat objectively determined...
...silver medalist Paul Wylie, agrees: "It helps that she knows the whole country is behind her." She has only to enter her family's home in Stoneham, Massachusetts, for reassurance. The dining room is filled with tubs of unopened mail. Her close family has always been her mainstay, the lump of gold Harding never had. But the struggle to vault their daughter to the top has been tough on the Kerrigans; father Dan is a welder, mother Brenda is legally blind. When Nancy began lessons, the family thought she might follow the path of her young coach, Theresa Martin...
Harvard needs to be more aggressive in exploring options. The University of Chicago, for example, offers a lump-sum payment that encourages retirement. The legal robustness of this plan has not yet been tested, but perhaps Harvard should try it until a better alternative can be found...
...Chicago solution, a lump-sum payment to encourage early retirement, is not the best solution of Harvard and may be illegal, says McCarthy...