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...about the current value of grades at Harvard would be as follows: Why are grades given in the first place? Who is their expected audience? What does a certain statistical distribution really mean, and is it proper to establish grading policies that aim at a specific statistical pattern? After examining these issues, we may find that "grade inflation" is a problematic if not a meaningless way to characterize Harvard students' academic situation...
...scores is always relative to some context and to some philosophy of how best to compare students' worth. Should grades be calculated relative to others students in the class, to those in other classes, or to those in the whole school? And should they follow any statistical bell curve pattern, or is anomaly to be expected from such an unnaturally high-quality population of competitors? This is what the grade inflation debate should be about...
...Timothy Johnson of ABC News insisted that the public has a right to learn about abnormal emotional conditions, as well as the "social history" of each candidate including a pattern of sexual promiscuity...
More than 50 students clad in black carried signs and distributed flyers alleging a pattern of insensitive behavior by Harvard faculty members and administrators...
...major goals at The Crimson in recent years has been to change that history, that mistrust, that pattern of perceived hostility. But changing that pattern requires more than good intentions. I'm well intentioned. I did ask Rudenstine his opinion of Mansfield's comments...