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Discussing press coverage of grade inflation in his final letter, dated this Feb. 1, he recalled a colleague’s comment at Oxford, “One can hardly hear oneself speak for the noise of clean linen being washed in public...
...small to make meaningful comparisons. It has become all too common for the goof-off and the hard-working genius to be separated by a single plus or minus on their transcript. When almost half of grades given out at the College are A or A-minus, distinguishing oneself in the classroom is not a matter of being better than everyone else, but of being perfect...
Therefore, the only reasonable way to separate oneself from the rabble, given that a B means a student showed up for class most days, is to get straight As. In the humanities, such a feat entails making friends with the TF, going to the professor’s office hours and doing all the reading. It’s not pleasant, but the path is clear and there are many factors that contribute to the final grade. In science classes, which give numbers for grades on the midterms and finals, the only way to ensure that A is to collect...
...There are three basic ways to authenticate oneself: One is something you know. Two is something you have. Three is something...
...documenting the demise of the English Liberal party, the historian George Dangerfield wrote that it “was the child of Progress, which is not only an illusion, but an athletic illusion, and which insists that it is better to hurl oneself backwards than to stand still.” It may be wishful thinking, but I sincerely hope that our PSLM friends think hard before raising the banner and again hurling themselves onto the barricades. Give the HCECP recommendations a chance to work before describing them as inadequate simply because they do not include...