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...enlightened wastrel begins to think less about the subject he is surveying and more about the exam. Even the diligent student becomes less concerned with knowing his courses and more with simply appearing to know. This brings them both around to the problem of how to outwit the grader, a problem which is met in one of three ways: 1. By appealing to his vanity as a scholar, which makes it difficult for him to admit that he doesn't know exactly what you are talking about. 2. By appealing to his instincts and sympathies as a gentleman...
...discuss it in terms of A, B, and C. You have not read: The Dolls House, so you state categorically that The Dolls House is a lousy play and discuss Hedda Gabler, instead. Presumably you have read Hedda Gabler, and if you do a good job on it, the grader can often be lulled into thinking that critical analysis rather than desperation caused you to misinterpret the question...
...addition to these, there are others the center has reservations about. They are marked "not unacceptable, but . . ." Huckleberry Finn is "not unacceptable, but like giving Hamlet to an eighth grader." As for Hans Brinker: or, The Silver Skates, it is "a good story, but should be accompanied by a story of modern Holland to avoid the wooden shoe stereotype...
...When some of the boys at school began tossing beans from a broken bean bag, Fourth" Grader Richard A. Christensen of Hartford, Conn, thought one of the beans lodged in his ear. He told his mother, but he felt no pain and she could find no bean. That was four months ago. Last week Richard was vindicated. Doctors, treating him for earache, removed a sure-enough navy bean with a half-inch green sprout...
...Broadway-oldtime songwriters are taking it big. A novice at the trade has written a catchy song called Snowflakes, Guy Lombardo has recorded it for Decca, and song sheets and records are selling in a flurry. The successful tunesmith: a nine-year-old girl from Brooklyn, a fourth-grader who doesn't even know Billboard from Variety...