Word: grade
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...school located at or near the center of a natural community, the resultant of a combination of a number of smaller schools each of which has given up its identity as an administrative school unit, maintaining full-grade and high-school courses. Offering a diversified curriculum, housed in a modern plant equipped for giving effectively the courses offered, transporting to and from school by safe and sanitary methods the pupils that live too far from the school building to walk, a,nd functioning as a center for community activities...
...objection to the custom is not primarily because of the false grade that a student may get from using printed notes, although that is an important factor. I am considering chiefly the injury that the student is doing to himself. The object of a college education is the development of mental muscle. If Jones lifts the dumbbell, Smith's muscle is not strengthened. Similarly, if Smith passes an examina...
Undergraduates--and there are such undergraduates--who have both done their own studying and have taken predigested study pills in the form of printed notes know that the former brings the higher grade. But in a large number of cases the grade does not count so long as it is "passing high." What is the use of wasting one's time in study when courses are naught but dusty, useless theory...
...Geer will address the assembly of Physical Directors on the subject, "Physical Education Administration at Harvard." He plans to divide his time between the selective system of required athletics for Freshmen and the measures taken with men who receive the grade of D in body mechanics. He will explain the working of the elective system and give statistics showing the popularity of the various sports...
...oarsmen have studied the new stroke with particular attention to the slide, blade work, and body swing. Since the work has been chiefly in fundamentals no races have been attempted although often the crews have been given short sprints to liven up matters. Coach Stevens has not tried to grade the men. Two crews were early made up of Juniors and Seniors and a third of Sophomores, and all have appeared pretty evenly matched...