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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...
...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...
English-speaking Americans, however, were more than borrowers and corrupters. As the nation grew, the language grew too-adding pull up stakes and pony express, wistaria and widow's walk, freshman and flunk, sideburns (the cheek whiskers worn by Union Army General Ambrose Burnside) and bloomers (the billowing trousers worn by Feminist Amelia Bloomer). An erudite U.S. missionary named T. S. Savage first named the gorilla. His source: the Greek translation of the word that Hanno of Carthage used to describe the hostile and hairy creatures he met on his travels...
...rather flunk my Wassermann test Than read a poem by Edgar A. Guest...
...preface to his Complete Poems Sandburg says: ". . . I went to West Point . . . for two weeks-returning home after passing in spelling, geography, history, failing in arithmetic and grammar . . ." The Register does not list candidates who flunk their entrance exams...