Word: grades
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...added it may be because of an erroneous perception of the Government Department's grading policies. Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53, chairman of the department, made several statements about the need to fight grade inflation, and anyone going to law school is likely to think twice about majoring in Government...
Both Fitzgerald and Faulkner, along with their less disillusioned colleague, Aldous Huxley, would have been surprised to learn that a few years after Faulkner made these remarks, two writers again turned toward Hollywood in search of the American ideal. Nathaniel West, slaving in a B-grade studio to reduce the images of silver screen gangster sagas to flicks like The Black Coin where a young hero, wearing a white sweater, is attacked regularly by four burly men in black, turned the ideal upside down. In The Day of the Locust America became a Hollywood burlesque...
Though Dartmouth appeared to be teetering at the brink of collapse, it had no one to blame but itself. Putting six fumbles down for grabs (losing four in the process) and unloading punts which were poor by grade school standards, the Big Green spent the first three periods setting itself up for a killing...
...five weeks. ("The worst experience in my life," Humphrey recalls.) The therapy worked and the Senator was found cancer-free for three years, but a recent examination at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda for symptoms of a urinary-tract infection turned up a low-grade malignancy that the doctors decided clearly required surgery...
Last year, students in both courses supposedly attended sections only to have their questions answered, and to take unit tests when they felt they were ready. A final exam determined the main part of their grade...