From Bradford Girls Grammar School she won a scholarship to St. Hugh's College, Oxford, where, excluded from the student debating society, known as the Union, because it did not admit women, she threw herself into Labor Party politics to the neglect of everything else, graduating with a disappointing third-class degree.
Yet even as experts have grown accustomed to disappointing American achievement, the degree to which students from the United States now trail their counterparts made for something of a shock, provoking questions about the country's ability to compete in a global economy.
The four main series entries that have followed since have been various degrees of disappointing.
If students simply drift into a Ph.D. program because they are undecided about what to do after their undergraduate degree, chances are that "it will be disappointing to them; they will get depressed," Gerbi says.
Maybe the most disappointing feature of these double bill DVDs is the degree to which they miss a golden opportunity to play with how they combine titles.
She found it disappointing and transferred to Barnard, where she received a bachelor's degree in 1934, just in time to enter the ranks of the unemployed.
But the more disappointing fact is that a substantial increase in women with an advanced academic degree has not led to a proportional increase in their participation in the labor force.
CQC chair Dame Jo Williams said: "The fact that over half of hospitals were falling short to some degree in the basic care they provided to elderly people is truly alarming and deeply disappointing.
Although we do show that rural and otherwise disadvantaged women have some degree of access to referral, the low absolute number of referrals from rural facilities confirms a disappointing underuse of CS for rural Tanzanian women [ 13].
