NPPF: C.17: Gradus ad Parnassum

Toby G Levy tobylevy at juno.com
Tue Aug 19 07:55:35 CDT 2003


>so, that student body crying "Grade Us!"

Is it at all possible that Gradus is a perversion of the latin "Gratis," 
which means "iwhtout reward, out of favor."  And of course the english
language use of gratis that means "free, or nothing."

Toby

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