Word: rubrics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stands, the Ad Board handles all kinds of disciplinary cases, both those that directly relate to a student's academic work at the College and those that fall generally under the rubric of "conduct unbecoming a Harvard student." The latter category can include offenses of a criminal nature. For all cases, it would be ideal if students could select outside representation instead of having their options limited to representation by College officials. Further, the perceived fairness and accountability of the Ad Board could be greatly improved if students sat as members and if the records of the proceedings were made...
...course, the machine cannot "get," say, a clever turn of phrase or an unusual analogy."If I'm unique, I might not fall under the scoring rubric," concedes Frederic McHale, a vice president at the Graduate Management Admission Council, which owns the GMAT. On the other hand, E-Rater is mercilessly objective and never tires halfway through a stack of essays. The upshot: in pretrial tests, E-Rater and a human reader were just as likely to agree as were two readers. "It's not intended to judge a person's creativity," says Darrell Laham, co-developer of the Intelligent...
...Speaker's--in those days the Speaker had projects the way cats have kittens. The projects ranged from the commonplace, like tax cuts, to the arcane, like the development of Internet technology in the practice of medicine. On the document's first page, in capital letters, was the rubric under which all this dizzy activity was to take place: NEWTWORLD. Newtworld was a very busy place. And Newt Gingrich was a very ambitious man. Which in the end is what...
...hardly more sanguine; the singer moaned "I weep in my loneliness; autumn stays too long in my heart." But the piece was not all despairing. "Of Youth" extolled friendship, while "Of Beauty" explored aesthetic unity in nature. Although each song seemed discrete, each number was enmeshed under one unifying rubric--Mahler's attempt to come to terms with his incipient death...
...Pellegrini '86, assistant professor ofEnglish who teaches Women's Studies 101:"Introduction to Women's Studies: Changing theSubject," says she worries that "discussing theLewinsky scandal under the rubric of sexualharassment leaves the door open to criminalizingsex and sexuality which do not conform to'traditional family values,' whatever those...