Word: grade
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Joseph Swan Platt 2L, Yale '24 who will take charge of the Book Review Department, and Frederick August Otto Schwarz 2L., a Harvard graduate of the class of '24, who will edit the Case department. Epstein is well qualified to edit the Notes as he received the second highest grade of the first year Law School class last year. Platt also ranked very high in his class. Schwarz, while at college was President of the CRIMSON as well as of the Student Council and also held a number of other offices being finally elected permanent secretary of his class...
...Germans," he continued, "are compelled to attend school for ten years, eight of which are spent in the grade school and two in the vocational school. The German child has either this choice, or that of spending four years in elementary schools and nine years in the Gymnasium. He may also take a straight vocational course, wherein three kinds of vocations are taught, namely, the lower, the medium, and the higher, classified according to the lower, the medium, and higher types of vocations...
...High grade garages couple such work with ordinary storage and washing service. None has found it more profitable than a group of capitalists and practical automobile men operating garages in Detroit, Chicago and Pittsburgh. Last week this group incorporated for $500,000 in Michigan as National Garages, Inc., and announced its intention to construct standard garages under one management in Philadelphia, Washington, Baltimore, Dallas, Rochester and Manhattan...
...education: "Most of these high sounding institutions, of course, are of low grade, and serve chiefly the children of rustic Baptists...
...Tilden now changed his subject to that of tennis, of which he is often hailed as the greatest exponent of all time. "The college tennis star of today cannot make the grade in the tennis championships," he said. "Of course there have been a few, but the competition is getting too keen. In fact, in all sports today, there is a tendency toward the thirties and forties in the ages of the stars, with the exception of golf. Golf used to be called the 'old man's game,' but now it is coming to be perhaps the most youthful...