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Yeah, that’s about right. Taliaferro seems to be of the philosophy that students who did well and demonstrated thorough comprehension of the material should be happy with Bs, and reserves As for uniquely exceptional and outstanding work. I suspect that if given the opportunity, Taliaferro would award many of his colleagues Bs, and may even give many of his own papers Bs. He just doesn’t think As should be commonplace.</p>