Word: grade
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Charles Gray Shaw, of New York University, mused skeptically: "As a matter of fact," said he, "the students have more avidity for knowledge than their teachers can boast. . . . If they do not learn, it is because they are not taught. The conversation of students is often of a low grade. So is that of their teachers." Prof. Shaw declared that the student of the day inclines to the unemotional attitude of Leopold and Loeb, Chicago perverts; that Phi Beta Kappa, hierarchy of U. S. scholarship, is as useless as its emblem, a watch...
...other judges reached their decision only after the greatest difficulty. Mr. Silvers said: "The play which has been chosen this year will be well able to compete with the best we have had in the past. In fact all the plays submitted were of a very high grade...
...Beta Kappa. Senior class poet, and on the Student Council. In the Law School he was on the staff of the Law Review and at graduation stood very high in a unusually large class. He served in the navy throughout the war as Eusign and later as Lieutenant, Junior grade, when he was overseas with the destroyer "Duncan...
...Governors discussed taxation, conservation of natural resources, grade-crossings measures to make automobile drivers financially responsible for injuries to persons and property. After two days of conference, they set out as guests of Governor Hardee of Florida on a trip up the St. Johns River and through the southern part of Florida. They honored by their presence the dedication of the new sixmile, three-million-dollar concrete bridge connecting St. Petersburg and Tampa, one of the greatest engineering achievements of the South. Eventually they went home...
...Yale team was composed of men who had played together for three years, and showed a higher grade of teamwork than the University riders. These three factors, teamwork, small floor, and familiar ponies have worked together so successfully to produce Eli victories that no team has ever beaten the Blue on its home field...