Word: grading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. H. Allen Smith, 68, pungent humorist-author of 36 books, many of them bestsellers; of undetermined causes; in San Francisco. A onetime altar boy and chicken picker, Smith quit school after the eighth grade and began newspapering. In 1941 he was feature writing for the New York World Telegram when he published bestselling Low Man on a Totem Pole, enabling him to quit his job and concentrate on humor. Always the newsman, Smith saw himself as a reporter who was funny only because "the world is funny...
William G. Fletcher Jr. '76 is press spokesman for the Task Force on Affirmative Action, a coalition of Harvard women and minority students and workers. BLACK ASIAN AMER. AMER. INDIAN SPAN. SURNAME ALL OTHER TOTAL alary Grade Men Women Men Women Men Women Men Women Men Women Men Women GRADE 1 $433-$565/month 14 23 1 1 0 0 2 2 33 73 50 99 GRADE 2 $470-$605/month 20 50 2 15 0 1 3 10 51 237 76 313 GRADE 3 $505-$660/month 21 87 0 17 0 2 2 12 68 674 91 762 GRADE...
After his father died in 1968 and his brother suffered a stroke in 1971, Gaither worked from 5 a.m. sometimes until midnight helping his mother manage the 400-acre family farm--and still maintained a near straight-A grade average...
...throughout the south as families group together to buy equipment for production. Along the coast, fishing cooperatives form to purchase motor boats. In farming areas, peasants band together to build irrigation systems or buy pumps. Schools are going up everywhere--by last October, four million children were in grade school. Schooling is free for the first time in South Vietnam's history: the government provides the materials and the villagers help build. Teachers are being trained as quickly as possible, and many are coming down from the north to help...
Before the vote, Jean Mayer, professor of Nutrition, told the Faculty he is "concerned about the fact that we are moving toward an automatic grade point average," because he said he fears students will find it "increasingly to their advantage to in effect repeat courses they have already done well in, rather than trying something...