Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson reported the results of a survey showing that on a 1 to 5 scale, students rate Harvard's academic life at 3.89, extracurricular life at 3.9 and social life at 3.46. These are presented like three legs of a stool, with one leg a good deal shorter than the others, leading the editors to characterize the result as a "far from pretty picture of Harvard life" (Editorial, Feb. 4). Never mind that 3.46 is a good deal above the midpoint of the scale; it's lower than the other numbers. How serious a problem is this inadequacy of Harvard...
...interests, noting that "there are different parts of the club. Depending on your interests, you can make costumes, and learn about medieval gaming like archery and fencing." A subsidiary of an international SCA network, the dozen or so members of the Harvard branch are invited monthly to a large-scale social event hosting the anachronistically inclined from all over the greater Boston area. E-mail sca@hcs.harvard.edu for more info...
...While these two students epitomize the heinous fallout of a monster class, the small-scale implications of negligible student-teacher relations can prove just as detrimental to the student. Mendelsohn himself admits that the distance between him and his students in his Core course is glaring. "Someone will walk though the Yard and smile at me and I'll have no idea that they are in my class," he recalls...
Birmingham compared the incentive program to the "star system" in academia, where a sliding-scale pay system rewards high-profile professors with higher salaries...
...says that as far as she knows, a project of this scale that has taken place while a library has remained open is unprecedented...