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...workers said he coupled the charming style of a European “gentleman?? with contemporary ideals of equality for women and minorities...
...master’s shop to be shaved…mentioned his having seen a fine girl home to Hamilton street, from whom he had certain favours the night before…the barber, concluding it to be his wife, in the height of his frenzy cut the gentleman??s throat from ear to ear and absconded...
...it’s really not true. We are here to learn, but we are also here to distinguish ourselves. In an academic community, distinguishing ourselves means pushing forward our accumulated knowledge of the world, working to improve our collective understanding, not just ourselves. Harvard is no longer a gentleman??s finishing school, but a serious place of intellectual inquiry, which can give the resources to push knowledge forward only to those who merit such resources. University President Lawrence H. Summers spoke in October about making the academic experience the center of College life. He has since expressed...
...would all make for an interesting chapter in their soon-to-be-written tell-all. Most of that arrogance probably has to do with the mind-boggling breaks we get at this school. If we don’t study for a class, the professor punishes us with a Gentleman??s C. If we are caught drinking underage, the Ad Board disciplines us with a firmly-stated, flimsily-followed admonishment. If we rape another student, we are penalized with a one or two-year vacation from school, subject to review...
This solution solves all of the problems caused by grade inflation, with a few added benefits. With rank, there would be no difficulty in guaranteeing a bell curve in every class. Gone will be the days of the Gentleman??s A—we can standardize the grade distributions across ranking, so that the smartest students are clearly distinguishable from the class dregs. Class rank will reintroduce a healthy dose of competition between students, reinvigorating the incentive system that grade inflation has dulled. Employers will have an easy time making distinctions between students, and Harvard will once again...