Word: minuses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Over the last ten years, a wave of grade inflation has hit Harvard. It is difficult these days to end up with a grade lower than a B minus in most social science and humanities courses. But as the grading of course work gets easier, the granting of departmental honors remains much the same, and undergraduates who do well in their courses feel slighted when Mother Harvard comes around to handing out summas to its children...
...English this year, one student's thesis was graded summa minus by a graduate student and no distinction by a Faculty member. The professor awarded no distinction because of what he considered an incorrect citation. After the graduate student was told of the possible error, the sources said, she changed her grade to no distinction, thus removing any hope that an honors grade might be salvaged...
According to Dean Whitlock there has been a steady "inflation" of grades at Harvard over the years, increasing the number of students above the cut-off for Phi Beta Kappa, which is an academic average of 13.00, or between B-plus and A-minus...
FRIDAY: Tom Sawyer. Twain's classic tale of boyish mischief on the Mississippi comes to television minus some of Tom's mischief and with an Ontario setting. Very Walt Disney. CH. 7. 8 p.m. Color...
...introductory course in organic chemistry. All students who fail to reach this crucial, basic level would be given an E. All other students would be considered equipped to handle biochemistry and the pursuit of medicine. They would be given grades ranging from an A to a B minus. Under this system, competing against course material rather than classmates would no longer be a myth. And medical school admissions computers across the country might spew out less rejections for Harvard premeds. Many courses in this and other colleges are considered honors courses. Chem 20 should be one of them. Samuel...