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Word: adoptionism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Another reason we oppose the adoption of the relative transcript is that it will cause a decrease in the overall grade point average. Relative transcripts will create a focus upon each faculty member's grading policy, which will lead to considerable pressure on faculty, especially those in non-tenured positions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Against "Relative Transcripts" | 2/14/1977 | See Source »

The one difficulty in Barry's early narrative is his feeble pseudo-Freudian attempt to explain Aurore Dupin's later adoption of a "male" personality--George Sand. Shortly before her father's death, she was dressed in a military uniform like her father's. "Not yet four, not yet George...

Author: By Joanne L. Kenen, | Title: The Feminist Troubadour | 2/11/1977 | See Source »

Nevertheless the adoption of a three-year House system does indeed raise serious questions of educational consequence about the successful transition of students from the advising pattern of a separate freshman year to that characteristic of the three-year Houses. The four-year Houses now at the Quad have, of...

Author: By John B. Fox jr., | Title: Trying to Resolve the Housing Debate | 1/13/1977 | See Source »

Rear Admiral William Benkert, chief of the Coast Guard's Office of Merchant Vessel Safety, indignantly denies the environmentalists' charges. "We haven't been sitting on our dead ass," he protests. But someone is. The U.S. has yet to ratify the liability convention adopted by the Inter-Governmental Maritime Consultative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oil Is Pouring on Troubled Waters | 1/10/1977 | See Source »

The task force does make one commendable recommendation in the housing field, the adoption of a pre-assignment plan for fresh-man housing. Although this version of the Yale plan is hardly a new idea-in fact it was debated fiercely without being adopted in the fall of 1975-it...

Author: By Jim Cramer, | Title: One Piano Tuner | 1/7/1977 | See Source »

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