Word: grades
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Stewart's quest for perfection began early. As the second eldest of six children in a middle-class, Nutley, N.J., household -- her mother taught sixth grade and her father sold pharmaceuticals -- Martha Kostyra spent high school weekends working as a model. While a Barnard student in the early 1960s, she pulled in as much as $35,000 a year from her modeling, enough to support herself and her husband, publisher Andrew Stewart, whom she married in her sophomore year. It was his family that acquainted her with the high life. "My introduction to grownup entertaining came at a dinner party...
Seniors were nominated on the basis of their grade point averages. Twelve seniors who joined the society last spring, two Harvard professors and Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57--chair of the Election Committee--reviewed transcripts and recommendations from the 48 men with the highest class rank...
Obviously, Julius Benedict (Schwarzenegger) and Vincent Benedict (DeVito) are fraternal, not identical, twins. They are the spawn of a Government-funded experiment in which a carefully selected woman is artificially inseminated with a spermatozoic cocktail to which six males have each made a high-grade genetic contribution. Julius, brainy, built and, as it happens, morally impeccable, is the predictable result. Vincent is the unanticipated consequence...
...senate was reportedly "overwhelmingly opposed" to the 'F' grade in 1975 when the 'D' was restored to the transcripts...
Supporters of reinstating the failing grade say that it will curb grade inflation and motivate students. But the committee said that after the new "no credit" system was institued in 1969, there was no long-term grade inflation. Robinson, who chairs the committee, said the 'F' grade "wouldn't motivate students any harder...