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...last 20 years. An additional 25 percent of grades awarded last year were A-minuses, according to Gross’ letter. Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr. ’53 said that grade inflation makes pluses and minuses more important. “Pluses and minuses offset grade inflation, because from the standpoint of a professor, you can make more distinctions,” he said. Pluses and minuses, according to Mansfield, “separate the best from the rest.”Armstrong said that the polarization between faculty and students about plus and minus...
...Foreign Relations––are unpaid. While Harvard does offer a vast number of grants and other forms of support for students pursuing unpaid but valuable summer activities, these grants are almost uniformly intended to help students support themselves during the summer and do nothing to offset the summer earnings expectation. Students on financial aid will still emerge $2,000 in debt, even after a full summer of productive employment.While it is true that a $2,000 deferred-interest loan, repayable after graduation, is not likely to mangle the financial futures of most students, expecting students...
...down while Oldham’s falsetto peaks out through layers of effects. ‘Daniel,’ ‘Pancho,’ and ‘The Calvary Cross’ all allow Oldham’s fragile charm to shine through, offset well by softer instrumentation from Tortoise, avoiding the dissonance and conflict between the two styles that occurs on tracks like ‘It’s Expected I’m Gone.’ Staunch Oldham fans, used to the threadbare Appalachian melodies of Palace Music, might not find...
...Those dollars are better reinvested in higher education and making college more affordable and accessible for all students, rather than deficit reduction or potential deficit reductions,” Day said. “A lot of these dollars will be used to offset tax cuts and other spending...
...high point of the film, but occur too infrequently in the storyline. Their chemistry is undeniable and one wonders why they are not paired on-screen more often (“Maid in Manhattan” notwithstanding). The film juggles the troubled relationship between Todd and Sofia, offset by escalating tensions in a Shanghai soon to be invaded by the Japanese. Both Sofia and Todd have lost everything in their lives and, because of this, find comfort in one another. Romantic movie weaklings, who cry over “The Notebook,” may need to find comfort...