Word: assess
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...large and complex institution where contracting is decentralized (and where arrangements may change from year to year), it is important to assess this situation periodically," Rudenstine wrote in a press release...
While not all the candidates assess the situation so harshly, most say they would prefer the Committee to shift its emphasis...
What we've decided now is that we'll identify, assess and honor a much wider range of human abilities than just whatever it is that IQ tests measure. That's the theory. The practice is that IQ testing--cheap, consistent and established--is still ubiquitous. Even the attempts to supplant it pay IQ the tribute of accepting its frame of reference. We have got used to trying to understand what goes on inside people's head in terms of "intelligences" and "quotients," and there doesn't seem to be any way to put that particular horse back...
...Studying this year in England has refreshed a lot of my outlook on Harvard, and has helped me assess our college's faults and virtues in a much more cogent, lucid way than if I had gotten progressively mired in Harvard for all of my four years," Hicks says...
Perhaps the FDO is taking its lead from the Masters of Lowell House, who, two weeks ago, banned the game because it "is not in keeping with spirit of community life." But it is one thing for House Masters to assess the value of individual House-wide activities. Although we encourage the Masters of Lowell to give the game a chance after all, the game--in one form or another--has thus far successfully promoted positive values of community and social interaction in Pforzheimer and Quincy Houses), it is ultimately their decision whether or not the game is consistent with...