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Something is much amiss here, and Sherlock Holmes should be just the man to put it right. Unfortunately, Holmes may be on hand in The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, but he is not fully present. He appears quite prominently-gamely played by Nicol Williamson-but the spirit of the master sleuth is nowhere to be found. Instead of pursuing his customary invigorating adventures, Holmes becomes enmeshed in a slack, sorry matter involving anti-Semites, a pasha, an abducted actress, a train race and Dr. Sigmund Freud...
Another undergraduate CUE member, Diane L. Sherlock '78, who is a Crimson editor, called the proposal a "step in the right direction but not far enough...
...Obviously there is abuse in the grading system," Sherlock said. "Students choose courses to a certain extent on the basis of grades they can get in them. Unfortunately, the proposal gives no understanding of what went into each grade and how hard a student works...
...That was the curious incident," remarked Sherlock Holmes...
Economists these days are applying a kind of Sherlock Holmes logic to the strange case of interest rates. Like the watchdog who did not bark (thus signifying to Holmes that the crime he was investigating must have been an inside job, perpetrated by someone the dog knew), loan charges have been doing the opposite of what might be expected. They have been lying low throughout a period when all past experience indicates they should have been rising. Like Holmes, economists think that this curious behavior must provide an important clue-in this case to what is really happening...