Word: graders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...final, Professor Crumgold dropped no hints whatsoever, allowing his pupils to expect a repeat of the hourly. The boom was lowered, howeven, when Crumgold's assistant and grader, Father O'Malley, distributed the six-page exam with its three dozen identifications all drawn from the lectures. Dr. Crumgold allowed the god priest full leeway as to grading, with the result that every student passed; not one walked away from that course indifferent to the dangers of overconfidence...
...good religion," G. K. Chesterton once said, "whether you can make a joke about it." Judging by The Shoes of the Fisherman, Roman Catholicism is an excellent faith indeed. This saccharine Pope opera is sober-faced and straitlaced, but it would be hard to imagine a parochial-school sixth-grader taking it seriously...
Keyboard and Diamond. On and off the field, McLain has been tackling all comers with careless abandon ever since he was an eighth-grader in suburban Markham, Ill., and refused to wear the blue uniform tie prescribed by the Roman Catholic sisters at Ascension grade school. As Denny tells it: "Ten days or so before graduation, I decided I wasn't going to wear that goddam blue bow tie any more. So I ripped it off, and Sister said, 'Put that tie back on,' and I said, "I'll be damned if I'll put it on.' Well, she called...
...friends. Galbraith's dancing style, which consists mostly of hopping up and down in place, has been described as the "pogo-stick stomp." The Galbraiths have three sons of their own: John Alan, 26 (Harvard '63), a clerk for California Supreme Court Justice Stanley Mosk; Peter, 17, an eleventh-grader at Boston's Commonwealth School; James, 16, a sophomore at Andover. A fourth, Douglas, died of leukemia in 1950 at seven...
...Mencken defined a judge as a law student who grades his own papers," writes Manhattan Internist John Prutting in the New York State Journal of Medicine. "A similar view might be taken of the physician who fails to submit his diagnostic skills to that impartial grader, the autopsy." With that, Dr. Prutting put in a plea for more autopsies, which would enable more doctors to compare more diagnoses with actual causes of death...