Word: standardly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...picturesque locale lacking the modern conveniences of urban (Square) life--i.e., 24 hour drug store, cash machine, parking garage. In actuality, the absence of these so-called amenities promotes a more relaxed lifestyle. In Europe, as in the Quad, a sense of community flourishes at a safe distance from standard consumer hubbub. Out here on the margins, our residential society supports a plethora of family-owned businesses and small restaurants, rather than the massive chain stores that dominate and corrupt the capitalist cosmopolitan environment...
CURRIER. According to the Currier House Assistance to the Masters, Patricia Pepper, "99 percent of the rooms [in Currier] are singles off a hallway." While Katherine Hart '01 laments that this rooming arrangement can make things lonely, there are obvious benefits to Currier's standard sophomore housing, either a single with a hall bathroom, or an adjoining single separated with a bathroom. Despite the optimistic probabilities, however, a few unlucky Currier sophomores manage to defy the lottery odds (some would say for the second time). Pepper notes that, while most sophomores in Currier will enjoy a spacious single, there...
Players on the team have represented their countries in international tournaments, won Olympic gold medals and shattered school records. But these women represent more than just excellence on the ice. They have become the standard bearers for women's hockey and have embraced the role as ambassadors of their sport. After the final buzzer during home games, scores of high school and junior high school girls, who came to cheer on their heroes, flock to the players, hoping for an autograph or a smile-and Harvard never fails to respond with total enthusiasm...
Whether teaching fellows embrace inflation or the "survival of the fittest" approach should be left to their and the professor's discretion. My concern is that this standard remains consistent across the entire course...
...while there is much that cannot be controlled in the administration of a course, consistency in grading is one empirical standard to reach for. The option still exists whether to support Darwinism or to embrace the inflation of first-year grades. There is already too much luck involved in nabbing a competent teaching fellow and a supportive section of students-irregular grading scales shouldn't be part of the crap shoot. Such concern applies not just to first-years, though it often seems that we bear the brunt of the burden, but also to every student in a class where...