Word: programed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Orchestra (HRO) will tour three cities this month with a program of Harvard-composed music, HRO conductor James D. Yannatos said yesterday...
...program spans 160 years of compositions by Harvard students and alumni, from the 19th century work of John K. Paine to a piece by Gregory R. Bliss, fourth-year graduate student in Music...
Presently half a student's grade in Gov 98 depends on hid Junior Essay, a, paper written during four days in Reading Period and evaluated by a committee of examiners unconnected with the tutorial program. Thinking that this four-day exercise too closely resembles a final exam, the department has suggested that students simply choose a paper they have written during the year for their tutor and submit that to the committee...
...committee reads the papers to decide whose grades should be cut down to a B. Even though all the papers might be outstanding, the committee would clamp down on most students and "equalize" thier grades. Scaling down grades ignores the fact that capable students in an honors program are highly motivated by the weekly pressure of a face-to-face meeting with their tutors and by knowing the importance of recommendations from their junior-year advisers for final honors and graduate schools. High grades could be expected, and there is no reason to believe that tutors--who are trusted...
...tutors want to avoid responsibility for grading because they fear that might prevent friendly relations with their students. But tutors are the only ones who can fairly give grades in tutorial. If they feel that grading is improper in this program, that is an argument for having tutorial ungraded, not for having someone on the outside...