Word: grade
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...instructions on the examination papers often require that a question be answered briefly or in a definite number of words. One man will write on the question at full length or in twice as many words as the instructions specify. He will receive a satisfactory grade. Another man with equal knowledge of the answer will follow instructions explicitly and do the much harder task of keeping within the required bounds. His grade will suffer because of his briefness...
When a class enters the Law School the members are divided into clubs which hold discussions among themselves throughout the first year. The following fall about twenty-four are picked to compete against one another according to a regular schedule, and a regular percentage system is used to grade the clubs according to cases won and lost. The four highest groups are retained for the semi-finals held in the fall of the third year, and as a climax comes the finals, a mock trial with actual justices on the bench. This concluding test involves, from the lawyer's standpoint...
...begin again at the beginning. If successful in course C, the student may complete the subject by passing course D (the second half of German A) in the Summer School, or by Mid-years. Moreover, any-one who has had some German and can pass course D with a grade of C, will have satisfied the department of his knowledge of the language...
...that the new productions now reaching the screen--some of which have been a year or more in the making--do show the results of what we have been trying to do. Not every picture will be flawless: not every one will please everybody, but the proportion of high grade pictures is definitely increasing: it will increase still more rapidly as the public awakens, as it is awakening, to the necessity of giving definite, affirmative, constructive support to those productions which do deserve...
Forty-three men won places on the honor list of those final candidates who secured an average grade of B or better in the 1922 examinations. The most brilliant individual record among 1003 final candidates was made by George W. Cottrell Jr. '26 of Cleveland, Ohio, who prepared at the University School in that city. He led by a narrow margin Austin M. Brues '26 of Jamaica Plain, who prepared at Roxbury Latin School, and Philip E. Mosely '26 of Westfield, who prepared at Westfield High School...