Word: roderick
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...Professors] should not be afraid to give D’s or C’s,” says Roderick MacFarquhar, Williams professor of history and political science and chair of the government department. “Some people here may be smart and just not working up to their potential...
Grade inflation has taken on a life of its own. As Government Department Chair Roderick MacFarquhar has said, “Some people may feel that everyone else is [inflating grades], and therefore they should too.” This vicious cycle gives students and faculty less accurate information, provides almost no distinction between real and inflated As and, most detrimentally, deprives students of the best opportunity to learn all they can at Harvard. The Faculty must confront its unavoidable responsibility to assure a more professional, direct and organized approach to issuing grades to undergraduates. While giving students meaningful feedback...
...favorite royal," said a 40 - ish Mayfair manicurist last week. "We resented having our tax money going to support her hedonistic lifestyle." Margaret smoked - up to 60 cigarettes day at one point - and drank heavily. Her name was linked with a variety of men, in particular Roderick Llewellyn, a landscape gardener 17 years her junior with whom she had an affair that lasted several years...
...Roderick MacFarquhar, government department chair, confirmed that Summers recently denied tenure to 54-year-old Istvan Hont, a political theorist at Cambridge University...
Goodman says that changing standards earlier makes the whole process run more smoothly. In the government department, notoriously difficult for junior faculty, chair Roderick MacFarquhar describes similar changes. “I think that the department has been very hardworking in its attempt to get first-class junior faculty,” he says. “It’s not something that I chant as a mantra every September, but all my colleagues on search committee are well aware that they have to be thinking ahead...