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Instead of 12 hours in class and an equivalent amount on outside work, the Tech student spends about 25 hours on each. Although labs are less frequent than one might suspect (most have about two three-hour labs every three weeks), it takes about 5 hours according to one B-plus student to "write up the voluminous reports they expect from...

Author: By Philip M. Boffey, | Title: Tech Student Can Pull Pranks Or Study Hard With Equanimity | 3/2/1956 | See Source »

...Tufts College, in Medford, Mass., Pride was a B-plus engineering student when World War I came. There was no family discussion; Mel simply showed up at home one day in a sailor suit. He had enlisted in the Reserve as a machinist's mate second class, with the specific intention of becoming an aviator. After ground training at M.I.T. he went to Pensacola and learned to fly the Navy's N-9-an old Jenny dressed up with a pontoon and wing floats. Commissioned a Reserve ensign, Pride was designated Naval Aviator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: PRIDE OF THE SEVENTH FLEET | 2/7/1955 | See Source »

While the Medical School professes not to emphasize high marks in fact, 80 percent of those admitted have averages of B-plus or better, Ferry pointed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tutors Deny That Pre-Med Students Get Wrong Advice | 2/7/1955 | See Source »

...students graduating from Harvard, the new deferment law will require a senior year average of between B-plus and A-minus...

Author: By John J. Iselin, | Title: New Deferment Ruling To Assure Grad Degrees | 11/9/1954 | See Source »

...graduating student needed to be in the upper half of his class, or have scored 75 out of 100 on his deferment test to gain draft exemption in graduate school. But under the new ruling most graduate school bound students will have to have between an A-minus and B-plus average for the senior year, Sargent Kennedy '28, Registrar of the College, explained yesterday. In the past, a senior year average of between B and B-minus guaranteed draft deferment...

Author: By John J. Iselin, | Title: Standard for Deferment Raised in Grad Schools | 11/4/1954 | See Source »

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