"... grades on _a_ curve."

[Laurence Horn]

On Dec 24, 2013, at 10:04 PM, Benjamin Barrett wrote:

> 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.

Ditto, back to at least the early 1970s.

LH
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> On Dec 24, 2013, at 6:56 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at ALUM.MIT.EDU> wrote:
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>> Remember that bygone era when the expression was,
>>
>> "grade on _the_ [bell] curve"?
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