Word: minuses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...flight. On the morning of the launch, which was pushed back a day because ice formed on the shuttle during a cold snap at Cape Canaveral, journalists were informed simply that the countdown was "proceeding smoothly." Finally, at 2:41 p.m., there was a more specific announcement: "T minus 9 minutes and counting." At 2:50 the shuttle lifted off flawlessly and disappeared into the clear winter...
...loaded onto another plane and having checked freshman Eric Wanta's too- large luggage, the team took off an hour late, then endured a perilous 90-minute van ride on the snow-covered New Jersey highways to Princeton- minus Wanta's luggage, which did turn up in time for the trip to Philadelphia...
...wrong place to look for a modern Dover Beach, however, it may yet have bearing on the right one. The world does not look as unremittingly bleak as Arnold painted it in those final lines of Dover Beach (How could it?), but it often can feel that bleak--minus joy, love, light, certitude, peace and help for pain. As yet, no industry has disinvented poverty or starvation. And one advanced invention threatens to turn the earth into a polar waste. Even if most people learn to adjust to machines or the new science without the loss of human feeling, that...
More acutely, the current rush to correct the honors glut wholly ignores a more fundamental problem, the skewed system of grading that makes 87 percent of all grades in courses here B-minus or better, and that creates standards that vary widely from department to department. Until the problems relating to grading are corrected at Harvard, any system for awarding honors will be stop-gap at best...
Finally, while the general move to toughen and simplify the requirements is well-founded, it does not go far enough. Making a B-minus the ground-floor requirement for a cum laude degree is almost meaningless because the vast majority of grades in courses of Harvard are B-minus or better anyway. The Faculty would be well-advised to up the minimum average grade for an honors degree to at least a B. If should also be prepared to bend these grade requirements for those students who write exceptional senior theses, often the most significant academic experience in an undergraduate...