Word: different
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There is another disagreement among us, or if not a disagreement then a difference in attitude toward what we are doing today. It is a difference that cuts through the other differences, perhaps because it is a little inside each of us, and it leads to a mistake that we are liable to make no matter how else we agree or differ. In religious terms, it is to dwell too much on the possibility of the Apocalypse; in political terms, it is to dwell too much on the possibility of a Utopian Society. We must not confuse the ceremony...
...German, said his course also aimed at standardized grading through department exams, and group grading sessions. The final grade is an average of the objective exam grade (teaching fellows do not grade their students' papers) and the class grade given by the teaching fellow, and his grade can only differ from the exam mark by two notches (a half grade) unless the course head gives special permission for a greater dispcreprancy...
...tiny band of educational critics has recently produced a flurry of books complaining that U.S. public schools stifle, rather than stimulate, the natural joy that children should find in learning. While these academic reformers differ considerably in their formulas for improvement, they do have one big bond in common: each has written rave reviews urging the public to read the books of the others...
Wide Appeal. Jenkins is a practical socialist whose views do not differ widely from Callaghan's. He is a firm backer of Britain's entry into the Common Market, favors some relaxation of government controls and greater tax incentives for industry. The son of a coal miner who was a Labor M.P., he went to Oxford not on a scholarship but on his father's earnings...
...third proposal, the Radcliffe Union of Students, would not differ from RUA in its basic structure. However, it includes a clause which would provide for sole jurisdiction over changes in the student government. According to the constitution of both RGA and RUA, the College Council has a veto over a change in the constitution. The Union also provides for four Radcliffe students to sit on the Radcliffe College Council, Radcliffe's equivalent to the Harvard Corporation. The students vote automatically "only on matters affecting students directly." On other matters they would vote only by majority approval of the Radcliffe College...