Word: graded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...graduate students eligible to compete for places on the Harvard team that will bandy words with Oxford debaters touring the U. S. and Canada next fall. Reason: Oxford, untutored in the fine technique of eligibility rulings, has in the past sent over students who are "beyond the usual college grade," has consistently defeated U. S. teams recruited exclusively from the "usual grade...
...Attorneys General of the United States, 30 judges of Federal Circuit and District Courts. 97 judges of the highest courts of 34 states, 5 judges of the highest courts in Canada. The school has also graduated 330 teachers of law, including 14 deans of law schools of high grade; three of its former students are now teaching law in the University of Cambridge, England. Seven graduates have been presidents of the American Bar Association, and many have been high in the legal and political life of the country...
Since the entire site of the new school must be raised to a grade 18 feet above the river the dirt which is removed will simply be piled around the excavations to increase the height of the land as a whole and it will not be necessary to excavate the entire depth of the basements. In addition to the dirt which will be secured from the excavation work it is estimated that a large amount of earth must still be hauled in to raise the grade to the proposed 18 foot level...
This action of the council is in recognition of the fact that the Oxford, teams which come to this country are composed chiefly of students who are beyond the usual college grade. In previous years Oxford has permitted graduates to speak on the teams and has been consistently victorious over American college debaters. This year, for the first time, the English teams are entirely graduate and the council is permitting Harvard graduate students to speak in an effort to make the competition more intense...
...worries about the funded debts-they are being regularly paid, principal and interest, like high-grade bonds, in accordance with agreements made between the U.S. and the debtors...