Word: grade
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quality of the figures that may cause the more hopeful supporters of the Reading Period qualms of uneasiness. At the end of the first full year under the new system it was announced that the averages of the A, B, and high C, men were bettered and the lower grade men somewhat lowered. One would expect the proofs of the continuance of this tendency to be found in the Dean's List enrollment, for dealing as it does with a much smaller number it is more sensitive to changes affecting these upper strata of the student body than the more...
...these motors use gasoline for fuel. It must be a high-grade gasoline. And it is expensive. A cheaper fuel, such as fuel oil, is desirable. So research has been going on. Diesel engines burn fuel oil. But Diesel engines are ponderous. Packard's triumph is that its engineers have designed a light-weight Diesel-type motor that burns cheap fuel oil efficiently, and is air-cooled. Although it is a radial, its invention gives promise of an "in-line" air-cooled successor...
...undergraduate the system opens opportunities for currying parental approval unequalled even by the palmy first grade days when Mamma beamed her joy over the coveted "Ex" in deportment: No matter how gray the skies may hang over such courses as Philosophy A or Evolution 6, the mediocre but conscientious Tufts student can now know that the brightest of silver linings beams out from the old report card with an A in Conventional Religion 1. It is better perhaps not to consider the fate of the always possible naughty boy who by a miscalculation or the failure of the alarm clock...
...seven times a mark of C; eight or nine times a mark of L; more than nine times a mark of FF. Any student receiving a mark of FF in chapel must attend chapel with two different groups the following semester and will receive a grade in each group...
...figures, the majority of the Seniors now in the field were judged, after the divisional examination in their Junior year, potential honors men. The CRIMSON can reduce this statement to its lowest terms; exactly two-thirds of the Seniors in the field were rated as of distinction grade...