Word: compressional
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Grade inflation—that Loch Ness monster of Harvard perennially sighted by those who recall the days of the “Gentleman’s C”—has yet again reared its head. In a letter to the Faculty of Arts and Science last...
Gross wrote in a cover letter to Faculty that the slight rise in the mean grade in undergraduate courses indicates “that grade compression continues to be a concern.”
Gross used the same wording in his January 2006 cover letter to Faculty on the same issue, writing that both the rise in the mean grade and grade compression are are concerns “best addressed through ongoing discussion at the departmental level.”
But the urgent search for meaning ran into the real, raw sense of senselessness. "They were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time," President George W. Bush said plainly of the students who perished, and parents listening jammed their fists into their eyes and shuddered. There is no...
In McPhee's case, the problem was in his torso. After studying the results of his physical evaluation and a computer-generated chart showing how he transferred energy from his hips to his torso and then to his arms and eventually the clubhead, TPI found that because of his tight...