"... grades on _a_ curve."

[Benjamin Barrett]

I do not. My earliest recollection of this is early 1980s, so perhaps it had become indefinite by then. I also don't recall it being on a bell curve, just on some undefined curve.

On Dec 24, 2013, at 6:56 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at ALUM.MIT.EDU> wrote:

> Remember that bygone era when the expression was,
>
> "grade on _the_ [bell] curve"?

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