Word: grader
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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 should prefer the word "impressing." We admit to being impressionable, but not to being hypercredulous simps. His first two tactics for beating the system, 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 he is of the Wheatstone Bridge-double 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 to read...
...error in a town census report lists the first grader as an 87-year-old student. Somehow, her birth date was marked as 1904 instead of 1984, and she was recorded as head of the household...
Emma, a local sixth-grader and a participant in the Harvard Project on the Psychology of Women and Girls, visited Boston's Museum of Fine Arts recently...
Blout entered the scene in the fall of 1988 as the only ninth-grader in the newly-formed AIDS Peer Leaders group that was trying to educate the student body about the dangers of AIDS and the necessity to practice safe...