Word: midterms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Midterm examinations were tricky enough, and now you're looking for a few treats to celebrate the holiday in style. Why not try your favorite professor's haunts...
...soldiers, among them British General John Burgoyne, who was imprisoned there during the war. "I hear them rumbling about all the time," says Hannah L. Bouldin '86, who lives in the attic of the 226-year old house. She adds that the general's ghost inspired her during a midterm yesterday...
...perils of preaching moderation were underscored last week when the Democratic Policy Commission, a group of 100 elected officials from all levels of government chartered by Party Chairman Paul Kirk, published what amounts to a midterm platform. Titled New Choices in a Changing America, it is crammed with sensible proposals of modest caliber. But its most striking feature is its emphasis on moderate and mainstream chords, like the importance of family values. Some of the phrases might have come from a Reagan speech. For example: ". . . the political arrogance that would have bureaucrats run our economy and dictate our daily lives...
...humanitarian" aid for the contras, plus $300 million in assistance to Honduras, Costa Rica, El Salvador and Guatemala. It now faces a House-Senate conference committee, where Speaker Tip O'Neill may again attempt to stall it. But even Democratic opponents expect it to pass before November's midterm elections...
...English professor routinely gives A-minuses to students who do nothing more than attend his class. A history professor allows students to skip midterms, giving A-minuses if final exams are intelligible and B-pluses if they are not. Most professors are unwilling to assign more than two papers--or one paper and a midterm--and a final exam for fear of losing students shopping for courses in an enormous catalogue...