Word: graded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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JEREMY AT CRALE-Hugh Walpole -Doran ($2). There are two categories into which this book might fall: the small and high-grade category of Hugh Walpole's previous writing or the large category of the Rollo Boys at Haddon Hall. Unfortunately it falls mostly into the second. Jeremy, who engrossed Mr. Walpole's attention quite frequently when he was small and individual, is now of schoolboy age and character. In his football playing, fighting, friendships, difficulties, he is no longer so engrossing, no longer individual. Here and there Author Walpole makes an opportunity to show his accustomed insight...
...percentages of Freshmen falling into the A, B, C, and D classifications of posture are respectively four per cent, 36 per cent, 45 per cent, and 15 per cent. All men failing to obtain a grade above D are automatically placed in a class for special corrective exercises, conducted by N. W. Fradd...
...grade, the Gillette coal is a sub-bituminous kind called black lignite-tough, deliquescent, easily crumbled when exposed to air, when it also tends to combust spontaneously. Storage of it requires a special technic, but since one-third of its weight is water it is cheaply shipped after treatment. Valuable by-products result and the coal itself-or some like it-has been found serviceable in specially built locomotives, by the C. B. & Q. and the Chicago & Northwestern R. R.'s Much of the Gillette field is owned by the U. S., which can lease it under the mineral...
...when many men broke down under the strain of war service, and had to be built up by special exercises in camps established behind the lines in France. Exercises developed at that time proved effective in restoring health to men whose faulty body balance was responsible for a low grade of health...
...assimilated or is even supposed to have assimilated is comparatively minute. The outcome is this: a man who is gifted with imaginative powers may write an examination which compares very favorably with that of a man who has done his work with regularity and precision. Both receive the same grade. That grade influences the mid-year or final mark in varying degrees but it is safe to say that seldom is it quite ignored. Thus one who has received his start by a streak of luck, luck which rarely comes to pass in the examinations held at later periods...