Word: grading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...back our team!"). Twice a day, they snarled traffic with their jalopies, peddled tickets to pedestrians and motorists. Each afternoon they had a six-piece band jiving in front of the Book Nook store. Covering every angle, they even patched the hole in the stadium fence so that grade-school kids could no longer sneak in free...
...hour exams have been failing as this yardstick, however. They are the bluebooks that the student finds with a single big letter grade serawled on their cover, and no other comment. No exam really helps the student to learn unless he knows what he did wrong; a grade and a line of cryptic figures written on the inside cover are not constructive criticism. Despite their tremendous pressure for time, graders should comment on exams--telling students what they have done wrong and how they can tackle their errors. Coupled with expanded office hours and discussion in sections,--History 61 holds...
...movie at first? Wouldn't they spot Artie Biggs for a surefire Roy Rogers when they saw his lightning draw and heard him sing the way he sang at Manhattan's St. Vincent Ferrer's school? Why should a kid with his talents stew through fourth grade, take Skippy and Lady out for their walks every night and waste away his life in a 66th Street flat-when Hollywood was right there, waiting...
...case for all students, but it is what happens to a great majority of concentrators in fields where knowledge of a foreign language is unnecessary for undergraduates. They haven't the slightest interest in learning a language and forget most of it immediately after they get a grade of 594 or better on the examination...
...guest speaker saved Littauer from immediate ravage. The guest, after excusing himself as "unprepared for this unexpected situation," took out his speech and read. Its main thesis was that the CCA, if it was allowed to carry through one of its campaign promises to eliminate a particular grade crossing, would ruin the economy of East Cambridge. He explained the boundaries of East Cambridge, which include the Boston and Albany Railroad, the Drainage canal, another railroad and the Charles River, and showed how the proposed change would destroy the basis for the well-being of its citizens. The audience loudly agreed...