Word: grading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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College ain't worth what it used to be. So says my friend Professor Richard B. Freeman of the Economics Department. In his recent book. The Overeducated American, he computes the dollar return on the cost of college and finds it no better than the return on Grade B corporate bonds...
...Perpich is a fire-and-brimstone populist from northern Minnesota. As a boy, he shared a bed with two younger brothers. He delights in recalling that on his wedding day in 1954, his father Anton told him to leave behind "that pen you got when you left the eighth grade-one of your brothers can use it." Perpich became a dentist and was elected in 1962 to the state senate, where he pushed mining companies to pay more state taxes and reclaim pit-mined land. Predicted Ulric Scott, chairman of Minnesota's Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party...
...this leaves little scope for drama. Scenes are staged with all the complexity of the fourth-grade class play, and everyone is expected to say her lines correctly first time out if possible. Says one director: "I've printed scenes that made my stomach turn. But extra minutes eat into profits, and unless you have an obvious flub, you keep grinding...
However, it is possible that a ruling against special minority admissions would make it more difficult to admit minority applicants, who might be highly qualified to be physicians although their test scores and grade point averages might not be as high as those of others, Furshpan said...
Which, for someone who has played competitive football since second grade, is not the easist thing to do. As a freshman a year ago, Cordova played offensive halfback; his decision to switch to the defensive secondary was based on his desire to play...