Word: graded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. William E. ("Wild Bill") Donovan, 46, manager of the New Haven Club of the Eastern (baseball) League, at a grade crossing at Forsyth, N. Y., when the second section of the N. Y. Central's 20th Century Limited telescoped another section in which he was sleeping...
...great majority of cases, the student is allowed to make up his work at a later date, or is merely not graded on the particular test which he missed. There have been instances, however where the instructor has not permitted any make-up or postponement and has given a zero grade on the uncompromising theory that the student should have been present. In the case of men excused by the office for reasons other than that of necessity, this point of view is not unreasonable; but it seems unjust to penalize a man who has been absent because of conditions...
...think there is a great popular demand for foreign productions? To a certain extent, yes, but not, I believe, so much because they are foreign as because they are high-grade. Of course, there will always be fad-hunters who are after something out of the ordinary, but they form a small part of the theatre-going public. Eleanora Duse has been a tremendous attraction. So have the Moscow Players and the ChauveSouris. Translations from the French and Russian have been very popular. Is it because they are foreign? I don't think so. Last year I practically concluded arrangements...
...French infantry, who volunteered for service in 1914 although an American citizen, of Major Edward Ball Cole, who commanded the 1st (later the 6th) Machine Gun Battalion of the 4th Marine Brigade and died of wounds received at Belleau Wood, and of Elbert Walker Shirk, a lieutenant, junior grade, in the Navy Flying Corps, who died...
...American teams, conditions have changed since Walter Camp began making his annual selection. Then high-grade football was limited to a few large Eastern colleges and it was possible to see all the leading teams is action. Now it is impossible for one man to see half of them. It is unfair to pick a man for an All-American team when the picker has never seen him play. The report may come that So-and-so-starred in such-and-such a game, but that doesn't prove anything. There can be no fair standard of comparison. Even...