Word: graded
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...years a decided reaction set in. In 1826 a new law was passed that decreed that every town of more than 4,000 inhabitants should support a first grade high school, and that all towns of more than 400 householders should support a second grade high school, the difference between these schools being that in the schools of the first grade Latin and Greek were taught, while in those of the second grade they were not. The law of 1826 is practically the law today, although the state legislature has since been very vacillating...
...Various other schemes are inadequate. - (a) Surface roads. - (1) Do not eliminate danger. - (2) Do not relieve congestion. - (3) Entail great expense. - i. e. Street widening. - (b) Elevated roads undesirable in region of subway. - (1) Injure and destroy property. - (2) Do not abolish grade crossings of tracks. - (3) Not adapted to narrow, winding streets...
...things: (1) the good material among the speakers; and (2) their lack of that finish and self-confidence which comes from experience in debate. These men are men who ought to go on to cultivate their powers, but the large majority of them are not of a grade to pass the ability tests of the existing debating societies. I take for granted the undoubted benefits of training in debate, to the individual debaters, and Harvard's standing in that matter is certainly deserving of careful maintenance. But what are these freshmen to do? Their organization, by the terms...
...football are not inherent. - (a) Injuries exaggerated, and will be decreased by new rules. - (b) Time given to training to be decreased. - (c) Waste of time by spectators is not excessive. - (d) Lowering of students' ideals - if a danger - can be prevented by insistence of faculties on a high grade of scholarship...
When the very moderate grade of the Harvard College admission examinations is considered, it seems absurd that the average age of the entering classes should be close to nineteen years; yet such is still the case. Comparison with foreign countries in this respect is mortifying. In England, France, of Germany, boys of sixteen, or at the most seventeen, are as far advanced in their education as are college freshmen here. More than this, what they have learned they are familiar with in a way unknown to the boy who has here squeezed through college examinations which are often the sole...