Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just as the wheat farmers and cattlemen in the old dust-bowl area saw success ahead with lots of rain, big crops and good prices, along-as always-came something else. Last week, in millions of waving green acres of western Kansas, eastern Colorado, and extending north into Nebraska and south into the Texas Panhandle and New Mexico, the something else was the promise of the worst grasshopper plague in 20 years...
...percentile ranking of a Southern high school. If the same student ranked in the 50th percentile in the independent scale, he would place in the 91st bracket of Southern schools. These figures do indicate that the Southern high schools are considerably behind the private schools, but the Midwestern or Eastern public schools would rank somewhere in the middle of these two extremes...
...Eastern College Difficulties...
...occasional student who wishes to "go East" seldom realizes the difficulties of getting into a private Eastern college. He has probably been an all-A student in high school anyway, and has the added advantage of "geographic distribution." Only a handful of students take College Boards in any year, since few Midwestern colleges require them...
Horace Mann, therefore, is spared the Eastern high schools' keen competition for grades in anticipation of the college entrance scramble. To the extent that scholastic competition exists, it is simply competition for honors within the high school itself--who will be valedictorian, who will be elected to National Honor Society...