Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pond, splashed. A man dashed, fully garbed, toward the floundering female, who struggled away from him through the broken ice. "Mister, Mister, let me alone," she cried, but eventually permitted herself to be taken to the Lexington Avenue Hospital. Here, Mlle. Roseray was treated by a Dr. Martin J. Blank, who, despite his name, was no party to the plot; the man was put to bed so as to recover from a severe chill...
About the middle of July the work of copying the admission records of all the new Freshmen begins, and continues through the summer. Special blanks are used, on one side of which are noted the grades received in examinations passed for admission under the Old Plan, and the number of years given to studies pursued at school under the New Plan and Honor Plan. One these blanks are also noted the credit towards any of the language requirements, which a Freshman may have received, and also whether or not he is exempt from English A, the prescribed English...
...August a special form-letter is sent to each Freshman regarding registration and consultation with Advisers. With this letter is sent the pamphlet entitled, "Studies of the Freshman Year"; a list of the members of the Board of Freshman Advisers with the subjects which they teach, and a blank asking for the name; age; home address; address to which notice of appointment of Adviser should be sent; name of parent or guardian; where the boy has been prepared for College; the name of any Adviser to whom for any special reason, personal or otherwise, he would like to be assigned...
...admission grades of his advisees; the "Rules Relating to College Studies" and "Studies of the Freshman Year;" the elective pamphlet; a memorandum for the guidance of Advisers; the Freshman Week program, with the Advisers' names and hours and places of consultation on the back; and a supply of blank record cars on which the grades of each advisee may be entered throughout the year. There is also space on these cards for other matter, such as discipline, illness...
...Thursday, Friday, and Saturday of Freshman Week all Freshmen admitted in June who do not know their Faculty Advisers come to the office of the chairman. These did not return the blank sent to them in August because of their failure to receive it; because of their absence from home on a summer vacation; or because of carelessness. There is a surprisingly large number of such cases. These men are given a fresh blank which they fill out, and the chairman assignes them to an Adviser before they leave the office. There are also a good many men who have...