Word: minuses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...four matches will be against formidable North Carolina, and on paper the varsity hardly compares. Not only have the Tarheels had ample practice time under the southern sun, but the Crimson is minus four of last year...
...Plus & Minus...
Under the present set-up, plusses and minuses have much less importance than many people attach to them. B-plus and B-minus both count as straight B's for rank list ratings and for the student's final record transcripts. The man with a B-plus who has just missed an A has, in a sense, been robbed, while a person with a B-minus has been exalted somewhat out of proportion to his talents...
...than the rank list unfairness is the way the system affects one's final record transcript. This transcript is one of the essential factors in admission to graduate schools which, like the Scholarship Committee, will not even consider men below a certain academic group. The important signs, plus and minus, are ruthlessly excised by the Registrar's 1BM machine so that the student's scholastic picture consists of a set of solitary alphabet noodles without the soup...
Unless Yale wins tomorrow, tickets for the Dartmouth game will go on sale at the HAA in the basement of the Union, at 9 a.m. Monday morning. Price of tickets will be $2.40 and $1.20 minus the usual HAA coupon discount...