Word: grade
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Students of the first three groups will be placed upon the Dean's List unless they are under discipline. The basis of ranking is the number of required courses, ordinarily four. In case a student takes more than the required courses, his group will be determined by his highest grades; that is, the extra courses will be considered those in which his grades are lowest with the single exception that if English is prescribed the grade in English must be included. Dropped and readmitted Freshmen will be ranked on the basis of four courses including prescribed English...
Julius Rosenwald, President of Sears, Roebuck & Co.: "I narrowly escaped death. At a grade crossing near Chicago my automobile, was struck by a Baltimore & Ohio train. I leaped from my place at the wheel, was unhurt. My automobile, wrecked, was carried more than 100 yards down the track...
...awarded to the person writing the best essay on "Why it is a stinging insult to call a man Delcevare." Most of the entries, however, have come from married women and on all sorts of paper, some scrawled in pencil on scraps, others neatly written on the best grade of highly scented vellum...
...STORM -CENTER ? Burton E. Stevenson?Dodd, Mead ($2.00). Almost anything is rather more than likely to happen in Algiers. In order to insure its vigorous occurrence, Mr. Stevenson takes at least two high-grade heroes, the same number of carefully selected villains, and projects them together among the sinister wilds of the Atlas mountains. An exchanged seat on a train, a mysterious warning, a veiled lady, a crazy archaeologist, a tangle of Moslem intrigue, all give infinite opportunity for slaughter, mystery, catastrophe. The two heroes are respectively Irish, and French; the villains are perfectly valid cinema sheiks. A capital...
...Good grade jokes and jazz are most liberally provided in the following musical shows: Kid Boots, Poppy, Music Box Revue, Ziegfeld Follies, Mary Jane Me Kane, Stepping Stones, Runnin' Wild...