Word: flunk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...presidents believe all CP members automatically flunk their tests because of the nature of the group to which they belong. While this is probably true in the great majority of cases, it is not necessarily so in all. Dropping the blanket over all CP professors without passing individual judgement is playing too carelessly with the rights of tenure...
...large company recently offered to hire Yale's entire crop of graduate electrical engineers-sight unseen. Another promised the University of Santa Clara to employ even those engineering students who flunk their finals. Men about to be drafted are being signed to promissory contracts for the future. "It's like a fraternity rush," said the University of California's Associate Dean Everett Howe last week. "It's bad for the boys; it hurts their work and inflates their egos...
When the Yale Law School faculty voted to change its grading system last year no one batted an eye in either New Haven or Cambridge. The new system, reducing all grades to four--excellent, satisfactory, pass, and flunk--was designed to reduce the emphasis on percentage points, an emphasis which exists strongly at Harvard...
...first year of the new deal for women, the Portias compiled an average record. None made an A but thereafter there was a reasonable cross-section, including a flunk...
...Training: 120 days OCS at Newport, Rhode Island. Then active duty for 3 years. (Note: Candidates who flunk course must serve out a 4-year enlistment...