Word: grading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week left in the season and there's a solid chance for a four-way tie for the Ivy League championship. The last four-way tie I remember was in seventh grade in the waltz contest at Dick Champagne's Dancing School. I'm confused, so let's just shelve all those motion penalties for a second, okay...
Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci is the king of street smarts. A seventh grade dropout who speaks four languages, he has parlayed his flair for dramatics into a 22-year city council career, with a unique combination of New Deal-type liberalism and old-fashioned, neighborhood politics. Though he has not lost a race since he was first elected to the school committee in 1951 (when he says he "beat the pants off of Professor Raubough of Harvard"), Vellucci's fortunes, unbuffered by formal alliances or organizations, have never been secure. In 1975 he finished eighth in a nine-seat race...
...DECREASING interclass contact is an unhealthy development. First-hand observation of freshmen becomes impossible, so upperclassmen base their views of freshmen on stereotype and rumor. Are freshmen competitive, grade-hungry overachievers, or are they idyllic, innocent waifs who are "testing their wings"? No one can say for sure...
...think it should be that way. This is the way I feel. Because we have believed from way back," Moore says. Today, most Passamaquoddies are Catholics. Some say they are Catholics before they are Indians. The reservation's public school, which holds classes up to the eighth grade, was a parochial school five years ago. Nuns still work at the school. Peering down on the school and the adjacent rectory from a knoll is the old iron cross. But there is no hostility...
Today, the Indians have set their priorities. They are building suburban pre-fabs to house their large families efficiently (often as large as 13 or 14), they send their children to Eastport High School after eighth grade, although only a quarter of the entering Indian freshmen graduate...