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...English concentrator who is on the Dean's list and who receives a B on the Department's junior General Examination is allowed to write a thesis (in other words, enter into the Department's senior Honors tutorial program). He can be in group four if he receives a B-plus on his Generals, but if he makes a Generals grade of C or attains no better group standing than five, the Department will not enroll him in its senior Honors program and will not let him write a thesis...

Author: By Frederic L. Ballard jr., | Title: English Tutorial | 11/1/1962 | See Source »

...player in the U.S. this season is a gangling, astigmatic, pigeon-toed son of a shoemaker who sleeps on the floor, runs in the street, dances The Twist, and quotes Sociologist David Riesman. On or off the field, Michigan State Junior George Saimes is something of an iconoclast: a B-plus student who shuns "snap" courses, scoffs at fraternities ("They only do what society tells them to"), and rouses himself to fever pitch with a kind of self-hypnosis. "Every time they send me in," says Fullback Saimes, 20, "I tell myself that the next play is going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Iconoclast | 11/3/1961 | See Source »

...McCain reached Naha, Okinawa in December, she mustered a U.S. diplomat and two missionaries to find six able, poor boys who would promise to return to Okinawa and help their people. Among the candidates: Hoshin Nakamura, 19, son of a small farmer in the village of Sashki. A B-plus senior at rigorous Chinen Senior High School, Hoshin had no money for college. With ease, he passed the McCain's first test: a statement of purpose. Said Hoshin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Collegian & the Sailors | 8/8/1960 | See Source »

FOREIGN RELATIONS: B-PLUS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: On Capitol Hill & In the White House, Grade A Leadership | 8/18/1958 | See Source »

...more rigorous on its higher levels, the conference courses remain static. Although both graduates and undergrads are nominally subject to the same requirements, the long paper, the research project, the extensive bibliography, and special examination questions are aimed at the graduate. Moreover, in many cases any grade lower than B-plus is considered unsatisfactory for the graduate...

Author: By Sara E. Sagoff, | Title: Shift from Essay To Research Goal | 5/16/1958 | See Source »

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