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...attempt to find a more permanent answer some have advocated a curve on all grades given in each course in the College. Instituting a mandatory curve, of course, would eliminate grade inflation in an instant??€”but the cost would be tremendous, even if an exception were made for small seminars. Competition in courses would become even more intense as students rushed to beat their classmates on the curve rather than to help each other learn. But beyond institutionalizing a dog-eat-dog atmosphere, a curve is antithetical to the very essence of grades and would eliminate any possibility...
...such trauma? Even now I don’t totally understand. Certainly it was nothing Isabel said or did. She was a game, good sport about the whole affair. Mostly, I think, it was my own confusion and insecurity. In one instant??€”the instant I asked her to go on a date—the full depth of my cultural, social and even intellectual naiveté was exposed, to myself if to no one else...
...such trauma? Even now I don’t totally understand. Certainly it was nothing Isabel said or did. She was a game, good sport about the whole affair. Mostly, I think, it was my own confusion and insecurity. In one instant??€”the instant I asked her to go on a date—the full depth of my cultural, social and even intellectual naiveté was exposed, to myself if to no one else...