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...large part of Harvard’s first-half success was conditional upon Lin’s ability to distract opposing defenses and facilitate his team’s offense...
Harvard economics and philosophy Professor Amartya Sen and Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris economics professor Jean-Paul Fitoussi discussed their research on alternative ways of measuring the success of a society as part of a panel discussion organized by Center for European Studies visiting scholar Éloi Laurent...
...grade-deflation policy were announced, high-achieving Harvard students would expect the same grades from before the policy shift. This expectation would inevitably fail and lead to disappointment throughout the student body. Lowering students’ grades would also meet reluctance from course leaders, who (for the most part) want students to feel they have succeeded. Students, teaching fellows, professors, and administrators do not want such a confrontation, so grade deflation is a hard decision even in the best of times...
...course, there is always the risk that TFs and professors would simply use this opportunity to move the grading scale up and give out more A-pluses and As. Instituting A-pluses will be ineffective if it is not accompanied by grading discipline on the part of course leaders. However, this effort, to actually preserve the way they grade, seems easier than any other method of grade differentiation. In any case, something must be done, because, eight years after The Boston Globe declared our grading system the “laughingstock of the Ivy League,” we haven?...
...part of the Crimson’s efforts to move to a smaller, three-guard lineup, the sophomore center Wright didn’t play most of the second half, and his absence was noticeable...