Word: grades
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...They are grade school students, for the most part, and they are visiting Harvard's Arnold Arboretum to compare its lush greenery with the miniature plots they tend in their schoolyards...
...many types of plants together in one place provides students from all over Boston and New England with an opportunity to study botanic specimens first-hand. For the past six years, the arboretum has run programs with Boston and Cambridge public schools that teach plant and tree identification to grade school students...
...Radcliffe chapter of Phi Beta Kappa recently announced its Junior 12 from among the 24 Radcliffe students with the highest cumulative grade-point averages. One newly-nominated student criticized Phi Beta Kappa in The Crimson saying that "an organization like this highlights the bad aspects of grades...
...years ago, Boyko would not have handled the topic of religion with such confidence, nor would Volodya have had the last word. Now fresh breezes of tolerance are wafting through many Soviet schools, from first to tenth grade. Always considered a potent means of molding character, schools have been transformed into little laboratories of restructuring. Under Gorbachev, they are to change citizens from sheep into self-starters. Said Boguslovsky: "Soviet society requires not just a person who carries out orders but someone who thinks for himself. Our children are not mannequins, and our school is not a fortress...
...Part of the waste is low grade nuclearmaterial," said Leland G. Wood, a spokesperson forBeth Israel Hospital, a Harvard teaching hospital.Placentas, vials, syringes, chemotherapy waste andanimal carcasses all have to be incinerated, hesaid...