Word: grades
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Previously, volunteers worked with students in only one grade but at 29 schools...
Christopher A. McMillen '00 said that while he agreed with some of the negatives raised in the article, "As far as the large lectures go...I don't know how you could expect [Professor of Government] Michael Sandel to grade hundreds of papers...
Most Americans probably don't know much more about Columbus than the romanticized account of him they learn in grade school--that in 1492, he sailed out courageously from Spain, bound for India, but ended up discovering the New World. Every October, his holiday is supposed to commemorate a high point in Western history...
Eric Nelson's article "Look to the East," (Opinion, September 30, 1996) dealing with the topic of Islamic fundamentalism, displays an analytical shallowness worthy of any Grade B action movie, complete with slogan-chanting terrorists representing a dark foreign power. Nelson begins his analysis by describing a statue of Constantine that in his view predicted the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Sultan. To mirror the prophecy of Constantine, Nelson launches into his own sophomoric attempt to identify for us the "...threats and enemies of freedom...our enemies." Naturally, despite the fragmented complexity of international relations, Nelson flawlessly leads...
...home from seventh grade, a car struck Ellison, paralyzing her from the neck down and changing every aspect of her life...