1.   At least one veteran professor suggests that white professors are reluctant to give bad grades to black students and go easy on everyone as a result.

2.   But colleges are reluctant to give tough grades, fearing their students will look dumb compared with those elsewhere.

3.   Grades will be given on the basis of tests and other work.

4.   Graduation rates, for example, can easily be improved by making courses easier and encouraging teachers to give higher grades.

5.   Harvard College has no single grading scale, and Mansfield could give lower grades if he wanted, as some professors do.

6.   His disciples include teachers who give lower grades for papers written in bad penmanship and people who bristle at getting holiday notes typed instead of handwritten.

7.   Homolka has been hauling around the work and grades of all his students, in case he had to give final grades from the road.

8.   If the International Monetary Fund gave grades to its major borrower nations, Turkey and Argentina probably would have received mostly As this year.

9.   In fact, the school does not give grades.

10.   In fact, she knows exactly how highly she is prized, because they give her grades.