Word: exam
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...Harvard. In keeping with that theme, a group of friends decided that a trip to see the Red Sox and Royals was in order last month. Kansas City isn’t the most exciting team to watch, and several of us were woefully unprepared for a final exam set in two days.A few hours into the night, as refrains of Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline” coursed through the red-clad crowd in the eighth inning, I glanced up and noticed a zero on the scoreboard. Boston starting pitcher Jon Lester was working...
...took the team all the way to the ECAC finals, where it fell to Princeton. “We definitely had our ups and downs,” junior forward Jimmy Fraser said. “We started off really well, [but] come the end of December and then exam time, we kind of hit a wall. We were able to pull it together by the end [of the season], but unfortunately we just couldn’t pull through in the finals.”Harvard began its season in commanding fashion, notching big wins over its ECAC rivals...
...Administrators also shed light on what they perceived to be the defects of the grading system at the time. Paul H. Buck, former dean of the Faculty, told The Crimson that a “police-type exam given in great detail” can ruin “brilliant students,” and director of freshman scholarships Wallace MacDonald ’44 added: “Too few students realize that God is not grading their bluebooks...
...question his academic focus after receiving an “A” in a course taught by comparative literature professor Harry T. Levin ’33, though he had attended only two lectures. After he was able to rely on generic literary terms to write an exam essay on a book he had not read, Sheehan said he decided it was time for something more challenging...
...that law school officials have talked to a large number of individuals from Yale in designing the new grading program. “We wanted to get a better sense of the consequences,” Kramer said. “I think the main benefits are it reduces exam pressure inside so that students can focus less on grades and more on the subject.” Students were notified of the decision in an e-mail by Kramer on Thursday. “No grading system is perfect, but the consensus is that the reform will have significant...