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...here’s the catch: Try getting those same 10 people into a room to decide precisely what every educated person ought to know. Try it! There will be no agreement. The trouble is not finding a coherent position, but sorting out other coherent positions with a method that will yield a legitimate result. Harvard tried this experiment recently. After months of navel-gazing, consultations, focus groups, and faculty meetings, they came to a compromise: Students would have to take courses in certain categories, like history or literature or math or science. But within those categories, there were limited...
...performance in college, are correlated with the socioeconomic status of test takers, and are subject to the influence of coaching and private tutoring, luxuries only available to those who can afford them.Despite their many flaws, however, standardized tests are a necessary convenience for many schools, serving as a coarse method of comparison between the tens of thousands of applicants a school may consider every year. Steps should be taken to ameliorate the importance of these tests, but getting rid of them is unfortunately not a viable option.The good news is that debate about the importance of standardized testing in college...
...general fortitude (waking up the next morning). Can an afternoon with PBHA deliver those results? I think not. Also, is drinking really our number one problem? I figured that our number one problem was mental health. Harvard students are fucking crazy. The booze is only part of their coping method. So I guess we can all rest assured that, even though your decision might be final, your position as our Dean sure isn’t! Hugs, Jack P.S. Come to my party next weekend! The only difference is that, in the absence of UC party grant money, we won?...
...Maybe this is my method of consolation in the face of two tough losses, or maybe it’s a distraction from the fact that my school’s team has lost four of the last five games I’ve watched...
...that sort of afternoon for the Crimson, which suffered from lacksadaisical special teams play and excellent work from Leo, the Patriot League Special Teams Player of the Year last season. Leo, employing a rollout, rugby-style punting method, punted eight times for a 44.1-yard average, pinning Harvard inside its own 20 six times...