Word: graded
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...last number of the Advocate, "there is nothing," as we might have said in the eighteenth century, "that could be construed by the nicest reader into a trespass upon the rules of decorum." There is nothing--story, verses, or editorial article--that would not deserve, at least a satisfactory grade if offered in an English course in Harvard University. In these respects the number is superior to many of the magazines with brilliant covers that you may buy for fifteen cents in the stations of the Cambridge Subway. To the present reviewer, also, this Advocate is quite as interesting...
...into actual practice, and try out, the newest educational theories. Plans have been worked out by the Division for the school which it intends to start next year, if sufficient funds can be raised. The school will begin with only a kindergarten and each year a new grade will be added. It will be a cross between the best types of public, and country day schools. The teachers will be the best possible, men and women, thoroughly trained in the work, for it must be distinctly understood that the school will not be used as a place of practice...
...Davison's discussion of the methods of music teaching in the Boston public schools is timely in view of the avowed purpose of the board of education to go over this department of its work with a fine toothed comb. It reveals convincingly what most of us, in our grade school days, have suffered in the name of art. A constructive article on the same subject, written by some one who was both a psychologist and a musician, might have considerable, influence at this time. Mr. Hall describes Karg-Elert's organ compositions vividly, accomplishing a kind of task which...
Robert A. Taft son of Ex-President Taft, who graduated from the law School last year, won first honors in the class that took the Ohio State bar examinations last week, with a grade...
Owing to the small number of manuscripts handed in for the Senior Class Song competition, it has been decided to extend the competition until Tuesday, December 9. It the high grade of previous class songs is to be maintained, every Senior with any composing ability should prepare a manuscript...