Word: grade
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great real is to be said in favor of this plan. At present the lectures and the reading cover approximately the same ground, and a somewhat complete knowledge of one, combined with an incomplete knowledge of the other frequently enables a man to pass a course with a grade, for example, of C. In the future, when the student finds that lectures and reading do not actually parallel each other, he will be faced by a condition demanding closer attention to both...
...sugar, lay some salts presented to the President by a scientist. Should a bad odor invade the presidential office, the top of the urn can be removed. The discreet salts slay germs, sweeten air. ¶ Last week the President- Urged public and railroads alike to exercise greater caution at grade crossings...
...once one realizes where its logic leads. One of the greatest minds of all time was Leonardo da Vinci, and Leonardo was born out of wedlock. It is moreover, no guarantee of greatness in a nation that its people spawn promiscuously in order to provide greater opportunity for high-grade germ cells' meeting...
...largest families. It is practicable, or even desirable, that under these conditions the capable should be penalized to support them? Let us give them measures by which they themselves can tend to relieve their poverty. The experience of our clinics shows that this is possible even with high grade morons. The feebleminded of lower grades we must care for; but let us see that as few as possible of such incompetents are born. They are expensive. Let us try to cut down this expenditure and use the money to promote advisable economic reforms...
Married. Walter Baldwin Lawrence, headmaster of Lawrence School, Easton, Pa. (high grade day school); to Julia Johnetta Fisher of State College, Pa.; in Philadelphia...