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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard being Harvard, one does not give D's. Consider C- a failure). Why? Not because they are a sign the student does not know the material, or hasn't thought creatively, or any of that folly. They simply make tedious reading. "Locke is a transitional figure." "The whole thing boils down to human rights." Now I ask you, I have 92 bluebooks to read this week, and all I ask, really, is that you keep me awake. Is that so much...

Author: By A Grader, | Title: A Grader's Reply | 5/15/1989 | See Source »

...bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that A.E.'s are vicious or ludicrous as such; but in quantity they become sheer madness. Or induce it. "The 20th century has never recovered from the effects of Marx and Freud" (V.G.); "but whether this is a good thing or a bad thing is difficult to say." (A.E.) Now one such might be droll enough. But by the dozen? This, the quantitative aspect of grading--we are, after all, getting $5 a head for you dolts and therefore pile up as many of you apiece as we can get--this...

Author: By A Grader, | Title: A Grader's Reply | 5/15/1989 | See Source »

Wechsler's study of college drinkers found that college students were relatively unconcerned about their drinking habits. Sixty percent of the men in the study said they were not worried at all about their drinking, while 69 percent of the women said the same thing...

Author: By Chip Cummins, | Title: Alcohol Use Now Leads to Problems Later | 5/12/1989 | See Source »

...abrogating the treaties, Carter said that would "play right into the hands of Noriega. It's the kind of thing he would like to see...It would alienate every other nation in this hemisphere...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bush Alleges Fraud in Panama Election | 5/10/1989 | See Source »

...nice to have a bye because that gives us an extra weekend to get the kinks out and for exams and papers and what not," McAnaney said, "but at the same time it's pressure because the only way to get any better is to win the whole thing, which means just playing as well as we know...

Author: By Sandra Block, | Title: Laxwomen Seeded 2nd; Receive Bye in NCAAs | 5/10/1989 | See Source »

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