Word: graded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Earlier in the day, Keyte had proved that he could earn a pretty good grade even without much preparation. Although two make-up finals had kept him from so much as throwing batting practice since last Wednesday's UMass game, the hard-throwing lefty did not let his lack of homework affect his performance...
...more to the point. A great deal has happened in the decade since that strike, and so it is easy enough to let the message of that time slip out of our minds. Most members of the current senior class were, after all, only in the sixth grade when then-President Nathan M. Pusey '28 ordered in the police; the memory of that day and its aftermath is for them, at best, a muddled one. And so it is convenient to believe those who proclaim that ours is a completely different generation of students, an apathetic and self-oriented...
...Rogers and three committee members contemplate a fat computer printout. It measures, in code, the credentials of the 11,421 high school seniors who have applied to Brown. Next to each applicant's name, a long string of numbers and cryptic abbreviations shows college board scores, class rank, grade-point average and a preliminary rating for academic promise and personal quality on a scale of 1 to 6. Other symbols reveal more: "LEG 1" is a legacy, the son of a Brown alumnus. "M1" is a black; "M8" a Chicano. "50" means the Brown football coach is interested...
...diverse, impressive-the kind of mix Brown wants to enroll. The group visits almost 1,000 high schools in the fall. A network of 2,900 loyal alumni follow up with interviewing and more recruiting. They tell high school students that Brown is remarkably relaxed in an era of grade grubbing; that Brown has a beautiful campus; that Providence is not as blighted as it looks from Interstate 95; that nearly every Brown student who applies to grad school gets in. They are telling the truth, and Brown students confirm it on the college-high school grapevine...
...nearby college. Her mother is a maid, and she has six siblings, including a brother at Yale. Her essay radiates energy and will. She gets an A 83-admitted, unless Rogers has second thoughts at "minority review": "If we take her, I'm going to grab that grade book a year from now and see how she's doing...