Word: grade
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...former master-builder of the Agassix and Peabody Museums, Matthews Hall, Memorial Hall, and Robinson Hall, states that the new building will be the best constructed edifice belonging to the University. Special care must be taken in construction to have the building fully meet the requirements of a high grade chemical research laboratory. One of the features of the laboratory is the four concrete piers which are entirely apart from the foundations, so that no vibrations can disturb the delicate instruments used in research work...
...Mathematics D, E, K, and L. It is understood that students may anticipate English A. German A, and French A, in the manner set forth on page 505 of the University Catalogue for 1911-1912. Aside from these examinations, students desiring to enter courses above the elementary grade will be afforded an opportunity to present evidence of their fitness...
...basis for determining relative rank. Because of the wide variations in the standards of marking on the part of different professors, two pieces of equally good work very often receive varying marks. In certain courses the Rank List will show that about 20 per cent of the members received grade A, whereas in others only 4 or 5 per cent are A men. How, then, are the records of men graded according of different standards to be compared in the award of distinction? Nominally, one man may make a scholarship record far better than another, yet the latter may have...
...marks were distributed as follows: Old plan men. New plan men. Grade. No. Per cent. No. Per Cent...
Again, sixteen and five-tenths percent. of the men who entered under the old plan received honor grades (A or B), as against thirty per cent. of the men who entered under the new plan. Most striking of all, perhaps, is the fact that ninety-one per cent. of the men who entered under the new plan were reported at the mid-years as having done a satisfactory half-year's work in English, that is, as receiving grade C, or better; but against this ninety-one per cent. of new plan men doing satisfactory work appears the fact that...