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...registrar's office keeps grade records on file for about 20 to 25 years after a student leaves Harvard depending upon the space available in the transcript room. The registrar's original copies, unlike the shielded versions released by the office, includes test scores and notations of Ad Board actions. These records eventually find their way to Widener, joining student folders in the archives, to be preserved in perpetuity...
...take heart, you ain't seen nothing yet. Seventeen hundred freshman of the Harvard and Radcliffe Classes of 1978 still have to fight each other and the registrar and then run the snake-like gauntlet of group representatives peddling their wares before they can officially say they are Harvard students...
Walter A. Gagne, registrar and assistant dean of the Graduate School of Design, said that there is "maybe a 10-per-cent increase" in applicants over last year, but he said official figures will not be available until April...
...them for difficult courses. Some professors are skeptical about the effect of pass/fail on motivation and learning. Says Stanford Philosophy Professor John Mothershead Jr.: "There's a great temptation for a bright student in a pass/fail course not to do any work and get away with it." Associate Registrar Philip Bain at the University of Idaho agrees. "The students say pass/fail reduces their anxiety," he says. "But our studies show it also reduces their motivation, the amount of material learned and their goals...
...Registrar also said that drivers should slow down on Halloween to protect children who may be darting about in dark costumes during dusk or early darkness, especially in residential areas...