Word: grades
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unreal. He belongs, essentially, to a different social and political generation from most current undergraduates. In the spring of 1968, when King was assassinated, Detroit exploded in rage, and Stephens was preparing to enter Harvard as a freshman, today's freshman class members were sitting attentively in the third grade of elementary school. "At times, I feel like a relic," Stephens says. Still, he adds that he appreciates the respect others at Harvard have shown him. Oftentimes, Stephens says, other students ask him his opinion on social questions; many question him about the "Harvard experience" of the late...
...thing." He says that although his topic "sounds peculiar, and like something you wouldn't tell you kids about," his thesis may add to the general knowledge of the field, while many social science theses "won't be read by anybody outside the student and the thesis readers" who grade the work...
...Roberto Athayde When the letter E is reached on the hurricane list, the storm should be named Estelle. As the teacher of the play's title, Estelle Parsons portrays a woman of blistered paranoia and feverish sexual frustration who qualifies as a blackboard Himmler to an eighth-grade biology class...
...Carter has remained content to work within the wide limits that Mingus and his early contemporaries established. Even early in his career, Carter was indebted to Mingus for giving the bass a major role in jazz improvisation. And yet, he did not follow Mingus into the avant-grade line of jazz; he did not abandon the classic role of the bass as a rhythm instrument...
...survey found that the degree of grade inflation and lack of student preparation is greater among "junior colleges and lesser four-year institutions" where three-fourths of the faculty saw these as continuing trends...