Word: grading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sampling of the humor. Thus, in 1953, the firm published Droodles, a collection of simple line drawings with funny captions; in 1963 it put together The Elephant Book, offering the then-popular elephant jokes. Now, at least by Price/ Stern/Sloan standards, another kind of joke has made the grade. The company has just published The Good News, Bad News Book...
...individual ideas on some topic, presented in the scintillating lecture format; on a rare occasion, their ideas may even be more interesting and useful than your own, depending on which of you has been more calloused to life by over-exposure to academia. Afterwards they have the nerve to grade you on how well you have been able to put up with their particular fetishes. You should be grading them on how entertaining or useful their lectures were; on second thought, grading puts it mildly, you should be sentencing them...
LeBarre, a two-year varsity veteran in the Harvard heavyweight program, seemingly has everything going for him--size, strength, and experience. LeBarre, a junior, stroked this year's varsity heavies and has been rowing since eighth grade. With that kind of experience behind him, he will be dealing from a strong deck at Hanover...
...first, they not only sent their children to the public grade schools, a longtime Amish practice, but some parents permitted their teen-agers to attend two years of high school as well. Still, they feared that high school would tempt their children to "go English," as the Amish refer to slipping into worldly ways. The "English" world is non-Amish society; among themselves most Amish speak the German dialect known as Pennsylvania Dutch, and in religious services they use High German. New Glarus Farmer Wallace Miller, father of twelve and one of the respondents in the Supreme Court case, explained...
...strict faith of the Amish-and not mere "secular" disagreement with society's educational goals-that enabled the religious freedom guarantee to override the state's right to set educational standards. It also noted that the Amish sought exemption only from high school, not grade school. The decision will be small comfort to more modern communalists and dropouts who would like to get away from it all and educate their children in their own ways. Even so hallowed an anti-Establishment position as that of Henry David Thoreau, the court noted, was "philosophical and personal rather than religious...