Word: graded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...same spirit that we find Mr. Young asking an endowment for a research school of international relations rather than for the institution of "civics" classes in the grade schools. And President Goodnow, who has only recently seen the establishment of the new undergraduate department of Johns Hopkins at Homewood, complete with elaborate buildings, extra-curriculum activities and a rising football team, seems to be doubting the value of that sort of thing and looking toward a university of students rather than of people who go to college. There are plenty of places where people can be taught, but there...
Education: "In addition to the modern grade and high schools, a technical school has been opened at Haifa; and the entire system is about to be crowned with the Hebrew University* on Mount Skopos, near the Mount of Olives...
Together will this is has been announced that all men who received an average grade of B or better for their courses at mid-years are at once entitled to the privileges of the Dean's list. The letters from the Dean in acknowledgement of the fact will probably not be out until March 15. Those men who have been on this list, however, and whose grades at the mid-years did not maintain the standard are automatically denied its privileges...
...seems cruel to disillusion young and hopeful natures. The time has now come, however, when, in the interest of their progress in the useful arts, all Freshmen should be told that there is No such grade...
There is abundant room for discrimination in such a plan. "Satisfactory" will be reported only after a consideration of all factors by the tutors. Nor have classifications the discouraging rigidity of an alphabetical grade system. In time, when the present overemphasis on course grades becomes a memory only a student's scholastic rank will rest simply upon a report of "satisfactory" or "unsatisfactory" on both his course and his tutorial work. The absurd preoccupation with delicately shaded course grades which now descends like a plague on the College at examination periods will them be a horror of the past. Some...