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...enjoying their education. Surely, we aging professors think, life has been made too easy for them; surely we must raise standards higher and yet higher so that their education like our own, can be a time of suffering and punishment. It is not surprising that the most vocal critics of "grade inflation" are professors who actively dislike students...

Author: By David H. Donald, | Title: Grade Inflation: Two Different Views | 4/30/1976 | See Source »

Eleanor C. Marshall, assistant to the dean for housing, who handles student complaints about housing assignments, said yesterday the response this year was "not as vocal or as angry" as last year, but "many students and parents were patiently awaiting today's decision...

Author: By Steven Schorr, | Title: CHUL Holds to Decision On Freshman Transfers, Freeze Remains in Effect | 4/29/1976 | See Source »

Although students in all Houses have complaints about the crowding situation in their House, Mather House residents have been by far the most vocal...

Author: By Steven Schorr, | Title: Packing Them in | 4/24/1976 | See Source »

When I attended talks in William James Hall, or gave them, I was disconcerted by the way one person spoke continuously. My vocal Berawan friends in Borneo never allow such a thing to happen; no one lectures them. I found myself aching to interrupt other speakers and tongue-tied when an audience stared mutely back at me. At the co-op, things were much more to my liking. Even at our most solemn corporate event--a full House meeting--it is hard for any speaker to hold the attention of the audience for long before suffering a barrage of interjections...

Author: By Peter Metcalf, | Title: Tribal Politics in Borneo and Cambridge | 4/20/1976 | See Source »

Chicanos are most vocal in their criticism regarding the third phase of the process--the actual admission of Chicanos. Calls for institutionalization of the system always focus on one specific demand, the hiring of a full-time Chicano admissions official. Harvard has only chosen to hire Esteban Arrequin, a third-year student at the School of Education, as an assistant to the Committee on Admissions. While Arrequin does exercise a vote on each Chicano applicant, he is the first to acknowledge the inadequacy of Harvard's gesture. Arrequin works on a part-time basis at. Byerly Hall, spending...

Author: By Joseph L. Contreras, | Title: Two Stories of Minority Admissions | 4/19/1976 | See Source »

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