Word: grade
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Critics. Throughout the career Mr. Lindsay has been praised and attacked with the utmost heartiness by critics of high grade and low. However, it is generally admitted by any with a modicum of intelligence that he is one of the most individual and interesting poets of present-day America...
...April 21 appeared a notice of the forthcoming drive of Mormonism in the East, to celebrate the centenary of Brigham Young, founder of Mormonism. Westminster College, Salt Lake City, is the one Christian college in Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Wyoming, Nevada. None of the Catholic schools are of college grade, and the state universities are Mormon controlled. Westminster College is only a junior (2 year) college, but is now raising $750,000 to combat Mormonism in its own citadel. Of the desired amount $50,000, has been raised for Christian education, largely from the Presbyterian Church...
...reaches his apogee in the humanities in his senior year. From that point on he declines so rapidly that five years out he cannot talk intelligently with the average junior: ten years out with the average freshman: while twenty five years out, he is back again in the elementary grade. He is a Bachelor of Arts only by courtesy, and strictly speaking, no more entitled to hold a degree than before he entered college, however much law or medicine or business he may know. And the chances are that at about this time he begins to wonder if the facts...
...passing French A or German A with a satisfactory grade, or by passing a higher course in French or German...
...passing the elementary admission examination with a satisfactory grade or by passing the advanced admission examination...