Word: sectioning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard students not only rely on books brought from home for light study break entertainment. According to employees at several bookstores in the Square, many often stray from the textbook section, venture into children's books for purchases that demand less of their minds and their wallets...
Curious George and the children's section ofThe Coop are also venues frequented by Harvardstudents...
...Students come in to lounge around in thewinter," Coop employee Melanie S. Sharkley said.Sharkley called the children's section a "novelty"for students interested in more than just assignedreading...
...second option--already in effect, according to what some professors say and others do--is consciously to give out lower grades. The rumored "one A per section" rule in some Core classes is a case in point. But this plan is not wise. It drives away serious students unwilling to sacrifice their pride and, possibly, their degree of future success to appease what appears to be a professor's mean streak...
Others claim grade inflation is a problem since it is the threat of low grades that keeps us working. But imagine that this recurrent threat is removed. Imagine a place where you were motivated to read for section not by fear of being called on but just by the desire to learn. Grade inflation alone will not take us to this more humane place, but it is a start. For the fact is--as most students can verify from experience--we enjoy classes more in which we do well. And when we enjoy a class, we are more prone...