Word: grading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Overall grade point averages have been rising over the past 50 years. Reports for Harvard College show that in the '20s, about 20 per cent of the student body was on the Dean's List while the average for the '30s was 26 per cent. Thirty-seven percent made the list for the academic year 1949-50 and 65 per cent...
While Radcliffe was still archaic and poor, the mood on campus shifted strongly to the left. Michael Smith '73, now a tutor in Social Studies, explains the spirit of the time. "We cut our teeth on Vietnam, he says. People were much less grade conscious then, and "everything seemed possible...
...worker is turned down for a raise, he must be given a less than satisfactory rating for his work, a move that any supervisor contemplates with foreboding. The supervisor is compelled to give the offending employee 90 days' notice before he issues the bad grade. During this time, the employee is able to build up a substantial defense. He can then make a series of appeals with full-dress hearings that can drag on for months. Understandably, managers prefer to give everybody a passing grade in order to avoid the hassle...
Students who either fail to hand in a thesis or who do not receive an honor grade on their thesis lose their departmental status and receive their degree in "General Studies...
...began with boxing instruction at a neighborhood center and younger brother Michael as sparring partner. After dropping out of school in the tenth grade, he eventually joined the Marine Corps and its Camp Lejeune boxing squad. Despite a tendency to avoid training whenever possible, Spinks' brawling aggressiveness won him a spot on the 1976 U.S. Olympic team in Montreal. While Mom watched on a borrowed TV set in St. Louis, he and Michael, by then a fast-rising middleweight, became the first brothers to win gold medals in boxing simultaneously...