Word: bets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would get A's and the rest would flunk would be little better than assigning the specific marks to the individuals upon their enrollment in the course, but what many people seem to miss is the fact that the "distribution curve" system of marking, when properly applied, is a bet on the consistency of performance of a large group, the class, as against the consistency of performance of one man, the instructor. And that man's task is proverbially difficult, though it ranges in degree from a course in elementary mathematics to are advanced course in English composition (with CRIMSON...
...party of thirteen? I doubt it. Or change your crew trunks before a race? No, even if the doctor advised it. Well, it's the same way with shaving before an exam. You said the other day that you didn't hit English 28 very well; I'll bet a French franc to a Russian ruble you shaved that morning. Cut shaving, Bill; look at me: if I only had a little heavier growth and a less well-trained razor I'd be a Phi Beta...
...explained the situation, took a vote on whether the delay should be continued. The majority voted to wait. Another wait followed. Finally the performance went on without the President. A few minutes later, a tipsy friend wandered into the dressing-room of Actor Richard Bennett. "I won a bet!" declared the friend. "So?" murmured Mr. Bennett. "Yeh-I bet a fellow at dinner I could hold up your show for half an hour...
...Dumpty is a replica of that book, with new characters and an amplified concatenation of philosophical firecrackers. Other Hechtiana: A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago (sketches), Gargoyles (flaying journalistic and juridical hypocrisies), The Florentine Dagger (a mystery novel, alleged to have been written in 24 hours, on a bet), Fantasius Mallare and its sequel, The Kingdom of Evil (studies in the elephantiasis of carnal lust, for the first of which Author Hecht, being poor, was temporarily imprisoned) and The Egotist (played by Actor Leo Dietrichstein...
Lafayette and Rutgers and Bowdoin and Tufts are practically pay-your-money-and-take-your-choice propositions. Picking Lafayette to win is logical but unsafe. It is an excellent game not to bet on. Tufts ought to down Bowdoin, but the Maine team has the habit of trampling on Tufts when it cannot beat anyone else. The Medford college will have to upset a persistent jinx in order...