Word: graded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...named after David H. Moffat, famed railroad builder, is scheduled for completion in August. It will be used by the Denver & Salt Lake Railroad and probably leased to the Burlington and other lines. It shortens the route between Denver and Salt Lake City by 176 miles, cuts a 4% grade to 2%. Tunnels are usually thought of as underground things. The Moffat Tunnel is up in the air to the extent of 9,000 feet above sea level; but it is still 4,000 feet below the summit of James Peak. Drillers and dynamiters have been at work...
...reasoning behind such a development runs somewhat as follows: Tutorial systems are expensive. They require larger endowments than the average college is willing or able to obtain. They are therefore re-named Honors courses, narrowly limited in number to the highest grade students. The bulk of the undergraduate body continues under the old plan. Against this stabling together of the old with the new arise two different protests. John H. McDill writes to the Yale Daily News advocating "an enlarged system of honors", through which "More than the present limited few undergraduates would be enabled to engage in serious, intensive...
...Mencken, who has recently visited that South which he has so long belabored, gave it, through the columns of the New York World, a much better grade than the naughty pupil had any reason to expect. What is sentimentally called "the old South," what Mencken calls the late Confederacy, he reports is dying, although the old guard is still hanging on. It will not be long, however, before the doctrine of death to all ministers, Y. M. C. A. secretaries. A boy Scouts and college professor is firmly inculcated. Perhaps the Southerners are even subscribing to the American Mercury...
...change of Ministers in France is of less importance to the residents of Los Angeles than a change of grade on an important thoroughfare. We are vastly more concerned about the price of gasoline than about the exchange value of the French franc. The Colorado River runs across the front pages of our newspapers, and the Rhine across an inside page. The January sales of our big department stores are of more interest to our people than a sale of French bonds. A new movie star attracts more attention than a French victory or defeat in the Libyan or Sahara...
...month ago Professor Bliss Perry announced that beginning with next fall, only those men who had failed to pass the comprehensive examination in English with a grade of 70 or above would be required to take English A. The further change announced yesterday, which goes into effect immediately, permits of specialization to all those who have averaged C during the first half year. Special sections have been organized, for instance, in debating, short story writing, and playwrighting...