Word: grader
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...right, of course, about the third alternative, and a very sensible one it is--working out some system of fooling the grader; although I think I should prefer the word "impressing." We admit to being impressionable, but not to being hyper-credulous simps. His first two tactics for system beating, his Vague Generalities and Artful Equivocations, seem to presume the latter, and are only going to convince Crimson-reading graders (there are a few and we tell our friends) that the time has come to tighten the screws just a bit more...
Think, Mr. Carswell (wherever you are), think, all of you: imagine the situation, of your grader. (Unless, of course he is of the Wheatstone Bridgedouble differential CH3C6H2 (NO2)3 set. These people are mere cogs; automata; they simply feel to make sure you have punched the right holes. As they cannot think, they cannot be impressed; they are clods. The only way to beat their system is to cheat.) In the humanities and social sciences, it is well to remember, there is a man (occasionally a woman), a human type filling out your picture postcard. What does he want...
...jets, the company's biggest star next to Simba the Lion was told; don't even mention corporate jets and Disney in the same sentence. Now, some stars might have thrown a fit -- or got their agent to do it for them. But Allen reacted like a chastened fifth-grader; he told Disney it was just a joke...
Known by his street name, Beavis, the 16-year-old escaped from a youth center in El Monte, California, in June with a 15-year-old girl who calls herself Rainbow. A former ninth-grader at Antelope Valley High School who was just learning to play electric bass guitar, he was put into the center by his mother, he says, because she and he didn't get along -- at all. Though he misses his three-year-old brother, Beavis vows never to return home. "It's too awful there," he says. Instead he'll live on the streets until...
...thing I liked a lot about Harvard is that people didn't talk about grades in particular courses," he said. "I don't think that people sign up for my courses because I'm a hard or an easy grader...