Word: grades
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Moreover, Kurzman's underlying premise appears to be that athletic ability is a frivolous, unpraiseworthy attribute, especially when compared to more "Harvardian" skills such as grade-getting or piccolo playing. This is an elitist attitude which exemplifies much of what is wrong about Harvard. The ability to get good grades and the ability to play a musical instrument are merely skills. Like any other skills, they are acquired by a combination of innate ability and practice. They are also ethically neutral; they can be used for ill as well as for good. I see no magical distinction which makes them...
Life is slowly returning to the town of Tenancingo. The grade school has reopened its doors, as have the youth club and the carpentry workshop. Once again women call to one another from window ledges as they sit weaving palm straw into strips for hats and bags. Two weeks ago, bus service resumed to the capital city of San Salvador, 16 miles away, and last week running water started to flow again. Next month, if all goes according to plan, electricity will be restored. If Tenancingo's progress is modest, its ambition is not. The townspeople aim to make their...
...carlessly coloring away my days in kindergarten, my chances of marrying were about 90 percent. In the sixth grade, when I spent Tuesday afternoons getting kicked by my unwilling partners in dancing school, they dropped to 76 percent. When I graduated from high school, they plummeted to 66 percent. It's a little disconcerting to find out that now, as I enter the third decade of my life, a total stranger has assessed my marriageability at a miserable 60 percent, just a shade better that a fenced 50-50. Now I know what the Princess of Wales felt like when...
...does discrimination against women workers. But she thinks the major factor holding women back is their continuing burden in the home, particularly the responsibility of child rearing. Hewlett writes: "Ninety percent of women have children, and . . . it is precisely during the childbearing years that women fail to make the grade in the career struggle...
...merit-based system also might be unfair to students who, recovering from a freshmen slump, brought their grades up during their upperclass years. A built-in "Horatio Alger clause" would clearly be in order--entitling those with rising grade point averages to bump slumping students from their rooms...