Word: graded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After identifying seniors with the highest grade point averages, the society uses transcripts and recommendations to cut the nomination list down to 24 each November...
...after the impossible--a thing of words which would, to any satisfactory degree, capture David and the effect--the transforming effect--which he had on those who knew him. One can only, I suppose, recite facts--as the article necessarily did: prizes won, honors attained, public accomplishments, grade-point averages. What gets lost in all of that is David's astonishing completeness, the way scientist and friend and musician and neighbor all fit together; and the unending concern he had for others. We had become used to the fact that he had left this community...
...high jumping in ninth grade, but I noticed that the bar was higher in pole vaulting, so I switched," Buntic explains...
Pinney moved to vaulting when he entered Frontenoc Secondary School in tenth grade, though his first vaulting experience came two years earlier when he cleared an eight-foot high clothesline using a pine tree as a pole...
...difficult to come to a decision based on students motivation," he added "They are both experimenting and thinking of their grade point average at the same time...