Word: graded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pane glass (billed) 2.15 1 Broken heart (cooed) .63 Smelling salts for hostess 1.00 Refreshments 5.00 (Entry illegible) 33.00 Refreshments 5.00 Taxi, 2 blocks, protested by driver .15 Received from driver for vacating cab 2.00 Milk, wagon to 5th Ave. and 43rd St. 10.00 2 bottles Grade A. .40 1 Riding habit, borowed from milkman 12.00 1 Horse, gallop in Vanderbilt Ave. 5.00 Fine and Costs 13.00 Bench in Grand Central Experience Train to Northfield, Vt., by mistake 14.40 Refreshments at Northfield, Vt. (also by mistake) 5.00 Aspirin .15 Return train to Bratteboro. Vt., 3.47 Handear to Northfield, Mass...
...freshman's courses. Particular attention was given to the problem of note-taking. The groups were drilled in rapid reading: a corresponding growth in the assimilative powers was verified by tests. Lectures were given on habits, attentiveness, mental hygiene, memorizing, and choosing a vocation. The results that the grade of this group in intelligence examinations has been raised, and that the group is seventy-five percent successful in college and is on the up grade are interpreted as twin justifications of the scheme...
Principal Tate spent a good part of his time explaining to the eighth grade how and why the theory of evolution was incredible and wicked. Last week pupil Elizabeth Walker scampered up to Principal Tate saying, "What is the difference between evolution and revolution?" Principal Tate told her what revolution was; told her to look in the dictionary for the other word. Elizabeth Walker did so; she found that it meant, "a process of development." When the class heard this they wriggled on their chairs, frightened. Said one small girl, her big brown eyes very wide open, her voice very...
Approving Fascist editors exulted, last week, that each unsent greeting will conserve to the nation "not less than half an ounce of high grade paper pulp," and will release the price of stamp or telegraph fees for "more constructive expenditures...
...largest number of students, 104 being enrolled in this class. Every first year man who failed to get higher than D in his physical examination at the opening of the college year was forced to take this type if exercise. As soon as these men have brought up their grade to a C or higher, the instructor, N. W. Fradd, will allow them to elect their own favorite sport or form of exercise...