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That said, we are glad that Mansfield has finally chosen to separate explicitly his private feelings about grade inflation from his public assessments of students, and we encourage professors who agree with him on grade inflation to adopt a similar approach. Grades are used as a measure not only in individual courses, but also across courses and academic careers. A future graduate school or employer finding a Mansfield-inflicted C-minus on an applicant's transcript will assume that the students' work in the course was uniquely deficient, not that the professor was uniquely honest. A lonely giver...
This is true largely because we can longer trust the grades we see on a transcript from a Harvard graduate. A "Harvard A" does not, in fact, mean that the graduate has learned the course material. I am glad, however, that these same graduates feel good about themselves...
...College should also ensure that students have a full week between initial class meetings and study card day. Last fall only five days were allotted between the start of classes and the study card due date--we are glad to see that the Faculty's tentative calendar for the next two academic years allows students seven days to select courses...
...will take a lot of planning to stick with the Origin Diet. My guess is that some of the more rabid ancient-diet advocates wouldn't consider it a true paleolithic prescription. But I think Somer has the right idea. Just be glad you don't have to hunt down a woolly mammoth for dinner...
...Babita through a friend who had employed the child's mother. Babita's father, Parikshit, was happy to let her leave the family of eight's slum home for a few dollars and the offer of free clothes, food and board. The 10-year-old's mother, Janaki, was glad she would be going to school. "Batra said she would love my daughter like her own," says Janaki...