Word: grade
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...backfield, the most notable feature was the debut of Fitts; his two punts did not, it is true, live up to the ripple of expectation that swept the Stadium as he stepped back to kick; but wind and sun were against him. His running was high-grade. Past Michle before it seemed possible--he made three long dashes around left end--the last, sided by pretty interference by Fitzger-aid, all but netting a touchdown. It was not all speed; he mixed in some very pretty twisting out of some tackles, even if he did not attempt to reverse...
...Tommy" was just beginning the eight grade in grammar school when the accident occurred and he is now trying to make up his work and et ahead. He is very bright and willing to learn, but unable to pay for assistance. The dispensary is also unable to bring in teachers because of low finances...
...present system and one based on what the supporters of the Educational Association would term the English system. Such a duplication of effort would be impossible to maintain at any University. A second, and more surprising fault is the expression of opposition to a scheme whereby tutors may grade the examination papers of their own pupils. No such scheme exists at Harvard now, or ever did, so far as can be ascertained...
...secretary would be a good consul and quite as often a poor consul might prove an excellent secretary. The pending plan proposes the possibility of an exchange, at the pleasure of the Secretary of State, between the two sides of the service. This is done simply by standardizing the grades of the consular service and of the secretaries so as to make a secretary of any given grade interchangeable with a consul of a certain grade. As a corollary to this I propose a much more liberal salary scale for the secretaries. At present, consuls receive from...
...requirement of an elementary knowledge must be met (1) by translating satisfactorily passages of French or German of the same difficulty as those set in the final examination in French A or German A in Harvard College; or (2) by passing with a grade not lower than C either French A or German A or a similar course in another college or an elementary admission examination (based on two years of secondary school instruction) in French or German; or (3) by passing either an advanced admission examination (based on three years of secondary school instruction) or a college course...