Word: hardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...importance. In the conventional view, exams are no more than a technique for insuring that students learn things that they need to know, and grades encourage students to learn these things. But if schools are primarily designed as teaching models of modern economic enterprises, then grades become the hard coin of the scholastic marketplace. Students learn to sell their labor for money by selling their labor for grades. Exactly as in an office or factory, the school encourages students not to think about the intrinsic pleasure or displeasure of the work that they are required to do, but to respond...
Going into the 18th, Oldfield and Cornell's Bill Powers were even for the match. Both got onto the green in three. Oldfield had a ten foot putt for a par; Powers a six-footer. Oldfield tapped his putt too hard, sending it two feet past the pin. Powers gave him the putt--which is the usual and gentlemanly procedure. Powers, who must have anticipated an easy par and a victory, blew it. He three-putted the green and lost the match...
When Columbia played Princeton earlier this season, Princeton won, 8-1. But the score did not reflect the four matches which were tough battles for the Tiger team. The Lions won the number two doubles and put up three hard fights in the singles competition...
Junior Bobby Goeltz is the number one Tiger player and should give Crimson captain John Levin a hard match with high set scores...
Princeton's weakest positions are at numbers four and five. Tigermen Andy Krusen and Scott Rogers both had a hard time against the Lions this season. And Bill Washauer, the Crimson's number five player, won the number five and six singles championship in last fall's intercollegiate tournament...