Word: grades
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Random:Unplanned or unnatural happening: I ran into my first-grade teacher in the Square. It was so random...
...Iagreed, feeling lilliputian. Maybe I'munaccustomed to the standards at Harvard, I said.This isn't about Harvard, she said indignantly.I've taught at major universities across the U.S.,and I demand the same of everyone. Looks, she saidfinally, if you ever hand in a paper like this fora grade, I'll have to give you a C, and no one whogets Cs continues in the Honors English program.In fact, she went on, consider dropping my class.Get your English and writing up to speed first...
Four years ago, James Acton was barred from playing on his seventh-grade football team in Vernonia, Ore. after he refused to take a drug test. Acton's parents sued, arguing that their son, who was not a known drug user, had been subjected to unreasonable search. Today, in a 6-3 decision with broad implications for all American students, the Supreme Court ruled that public schools can require athletes to undergo random drug testing, without establishing any suspicion that the students involved are abusing substances. The Court held that school athletes have a lesser expectation of privacy, so that...
Cooper says Campbell was always more serious."When I was in the fourth grade and he was insixth, he ditched the tennis shoes. For the mostpart after that, Brad always wore sacks and wingtips...
...example, when Kenan Professor of GovernmentHarvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53 made a controversialremark linking grade inflation to increased Blackenrollment at Harvard, Bragg was not theprofessor's opponent in a Kennedy School forum onthe topic...