Word: ranking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seminars are open to endless cracks about "group dynamics," any device which encourages the student to forget his teacher as a grader is valuable. In courses and on field examinations only three grades will be given: "fail, satisfactory, distinction." There will be no pluses and minuses, no hallowed Rank List...
Declaring "You can't legislate goodness and kindness," Cohn said the proposed laws would only add to government bureaucracy, create trouble and cause litigation for unions. Needed instead, he stated, is more vigilant enforcement of the present laws, and "an aroused rank and file...that is free to fight its own cause...
Harvard and Radcliffe rank among the top three college choices of National Merit Scholarship winners, a nationally-conducted survey revealed recently. The College has attracted 212 Merit Scholars in the three years of the National Merit program, followed by M.I.T. with 167 and the Annex with...
...credit to get into college. The thought of going back was too much ("What a miserable four years"), and so he went to work as a cartoonist's assistant. Drafted during the Korean war, Feiffer put in two sad-sack years Stateside, was discharged as a PFC. That rank still nettles Feiffer. Says he: "I didn't want them to give me anything...
...enough for him to be enshrined by the islanders as something between seer and saint. On leave from his job as president of Massachusetts Agricultural College (now the University of Massachusetts), Clark helped found the school that was to become the outpost island's pride, its own first-rank university. Last week, as the university's 5,300 mackinawed students settled themselves on the snow-blown campus for the year's winter term, they slogged past an old landmark-a large statue of Clark-and a raw, new one: the shell of the still unfinished William Smith...