[Ads-l] grades on the nerves

[Wilson Gray]

On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 10:00 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> grating on a curve


Apparently, "grade on _the_ curve" has gone the way of "drive up _the_
wall" and "have one’s back against _the_ wall" and "cross _the_ line."

Sigh. 😜


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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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