Word: grading
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...readers; 3) when the President of Italy so generously bestowed upon me the Ordina al Merita della Repubblica, it wasn't the Grand Cross, which normally is reserved for chiefs of state and ambassadorial-level diplomats. Since we are naught but toilers in the travel-writing vineyards, the grade is Cross of Commander (Comendador)-which the British and various other governments classify as "Knight Commander...
Other forms of self-commemoration do not appeal to Nelms. "I don't believe in education," he explained when college presidents tried to convince him that schools were nobler than booze. "I only went through the fourth grade myself-and I consider that the last year was wasted." When an opera group sought a subsidy, he said, "If you folks would just put on hillbilly shows, you could be self-supporting...
...School committee that had been investigating grade reform finally released a tentative report. It recommended that the school reduce the importance of first-year exams and that it offer first-year students the option of being graded pass-fail...
...Faculty approved the long-awaited grade reform plan. The new plan gave first year students the choice of three different grading systems--pass-fail, high satisfactory-low-fail, of the old system of nine letter grades...
March 27: The Law School's committee investigating grade reform said that there was virtually no chance that a pass-fail system could be started by next Fall. Students replied by calling the committee report "insulting, inane, and frivolous...