Word: grade
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Students in the University, and especially those in the Graduate Schools and Law School, are warned against a group of swindlers who are operating in Cambridge, and selling low-grade domestic cloths as expensive imported goods. Two of the pseudo merchants generally go around through the dormitories together, traveling in a Ford touring car. A heavily built, dark man usually carries the cloth, while one of a group of accomplices, giving a different name and card each time, sells the cloth. To disarm suspicion, they often mention the name of a well-known student as recommending them, and also speak...
...Marshall 2 R. S., the new treasurer, was overseas as a lieutenant, junior grade, in Naval Aviation. These officers propose next year to use the seaplane which is at present being employed for the instruction of one new pilot, of give several more men an opportunity to get pilots' licenses...
When will prices strike the down grade? This is a question that is of immediate, absorbing interest to practically every business man and to consumers throughout the United States. It also interests our labor leaders, for the future course of prices will influence not only wage demands but also the progress of radical against conservative leadership. On what happens to prices, furthermore, hangs the rate of politicians...
Under the new system of promotion for the University staff, according to which the associate professorship is restored to its position as a regular grade between the assistant professorship and the full professorship, twelve members of the Faculty have been raised to the rank of associate professor. This new plan of promotion was put into effect in March upon the recommendation of a joint committee of the Corporation and the Faculties, at the time when it was voted to put through a 40 to 50 per cent. increase in the salaries of the teaching staff...
...head of the military intelligence service in the A. E. F., he did signal service in organizing and conducting this department. It was due chiefly to his efforts and those of Colonel Arthur L. Conger '94 that the Military Intelligence Department attained such a high grade of efficiency during the war. General Mangin, of the French Army, in speaking of General Nolen's work, said: "The Intelligence Department of the A. E. F. was the first branch of the American staff to learn to function properly under modern conditions...