Word: grade
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Because the Yale School of Nursing proved during five years of trial, that it was educating nurses rather than training women to be high-grade hospital menials, the Rockefeller Foundation last week gave the school $1,000,000 for endowment. When the Rockefeller Foundation gives money to an institution it means that institution to stand as model for others. The Yale School of Nursing has 116 students enrolled. More than half are college students...
Clifford B. Longley, Chicago born, was taken to Kalamazoo when he was old enough to talk. He talked his way successfully through grade schools and the better part of a high school course. Then he went back to Chicago, studied engineering and took a diploma. At length, he wound up in Washington with the U. S. Engineers...
Candidates are encouraged further in their consideration of the Junior divisional examination only as an occasion by the absence of any records of the results. No marks are kept, so that a grade just above the passing line serves the purpose as well as a mark of distinction. Where this is the case, few will take the trouble to learn more than is necessary, and veterans of examinations have a way of knowing how much is necessary...
...ticket of admission to this field of scholarship in the Senior year is a passing grade in the written divisional examination the year before. It is just here that the proponents of the plan run a risk they have hoped to avoid, the magnifying beyond reason of the examination as such. The examination becomes something to be passed, a qualifying round to be met in the most feasible and expedient manner, for the privilege of attempting another, more specialized, task...
University authorities declined last night to release the name of the course in which this unusual departure occurred for fear that the fact that the vagabond secured a satisfactory grade for his three hour participation might unduly swell the rolls next year. But shrouded in silence as the details of this outbreak of Romanticism must be, brightly shines the moral of the tale; even in the twentieth century a vagabond may be King...