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The Rise of Grade Inflation

The growing number of high marks has many professors—and some students—worried academic excellence is being cheapened. Has Dartmouth reached a breaking point?

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Tony Jones '90

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Divine Nature

When I arrived in the Upper Valley in September 1986, one characteristic most defined me: naïveté. I hailed from a quiet suburb in Minnesota, whereas my first-year roommates were East Coast prep schoolers.
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