Word: grading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...railroad town of Susquehanna, pa., Fred Skinner was "taught to fear God, the police and what people will think." Skinner writes, "My mother was quick to take alarm if I showed any deviation from what was 'right'... I can easily recall the consternation in my family when in second grade I brought home a report card on which under 'Deportment,' the phrase 'Annoys others' had been checked. Many things which were not 'right' still haunt...
Died. Joseph Dunninger, 82, magician and mentalist; of Parkinson's disease; in Cliffside Park, N.J. Dunninger's first intimations of telepathic power came, he said, when he realized he could read grade-school classmates' minds and find solutions to math problems. Dunninger began as a magician (among his tricks: making an elephant disappear, sawing a woman in eighths), later perfected the mind-reading act that made him famous. Among the brains Dunninger picked were those of six Presidents and such luminaries as Thomas Edison and Pope Pius XII, who temporarily baffled him by thinking in Latin. Like...
...adolescence, Cher had started perfecting a signature she regarded as suitable for a star to sign in autograph books, and after the tenth grade she quit school forever. Around this time she had a first-and last-experience with a drug, Benzedrine. It left her "deadly opposed to drugs in every form, in every way." At 16 she left home rather than go on quarreling with her mother about "life-styles...
...argument for such a move is that with the grade inflation that Dean K. Whitla, director of the Office of Instructional Research and Evaluation, says has been noticeable in the College over the last 20 years, more and more students have been graduating with honors...
...CLGS often goes to seniors who have dropped their theses, and Pipkin said that the new guidelines would establish a grade-point average minimum for all students who would attempt to qualify for the honor...