Word: graded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other residents pass by, they yell out tohim, asking if he has told the story of hisnear-ordainment and the one about his polyps yet,or if the story of his commendation from thesuperintendent of schools in sixth grade hasimpressed suitably...
Marius said he favors the establishment of amandatory course for all Core curriculum teachingfellows that would teach them how to grade papersand teach writing. "A whole lot of them don't haveany idea what they're doing," he said of teachingfellows...
Felsen, who first played the sport in her fifth-grade gym class, also agrees with her fellow tri-captains about the importance of the team's trip to Holland. "The team unity ran a little deeper just because we were in a foreign country and so far away from home," she says. "Because of this, we grew together and became more of a unit...
...also did not make myself clear about competition at Harvard, where I referred to the Law and Business Schools as well as to the College. I have no basis for saying that "I do not know any institution that puts so much pressure on their students in terms of grade competition." Rather, I emphasized the more general aspects of competitiveness at Harvard, among faculty as well as among students, at once burden, bravura, and benefit. Grade competition may well be higher at selective colleges with fewer non-academic arenas in which to seek distinction. David Riesman '31 Ford Professor...
...each character looks back at Theo and searches for clues to explain his fate, a complex portrait slowly emerges, not only of a troubled young man but of an entire community losing its ideals and energies. Theo's marriage to Snow Mullins, a red-neck girl with a ninth-grade education, was a gauntlet thrown down at the Quicks' precarious sense of stature, indeed at Mountain City's communal illusion of social propriety. Theo's younger brother Rafe remembers, "I mean, it was embarrassing at the wedding, seeing how Mom's friends tried to keep their faces from showing...