Word: graded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...originator of the sport was a Rugby School boy named William Webb Ellis, who one day a century ago on the football (soccer) field of the famous grade school in England, violated the rules of the game (similar to modern soccer) by picking up the ball and running with it. Here the idea of Rugby, the origin of the popular American game, was conceived...
Stephen Steps Out. DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS, JR., WEDS DOROTHY STONE should be next among the numerous nuptials of the show world. " Should be" because it would provide the respective press agents with high grade copy. YOUNG STARS WHO GAINED FAME AT DEBUTS. Columns and columns of comment with pictures of the agile parents, Fred and Douglas, bounding over the church steeple in their ecstasy...
...Berkeley, Calif., Dr. Olga Bridgman announced that she had discovered a means of transforming idiots into high grade morons. No details were given, aside from the fact that the treatment is applied to the thyroid glands and is declared effective only in cases of idiocy resulting from irregular secretions from the ductless glands...
...with all the Harvard customs--yet I must confess my observation of a new one the other day, The seating charts of one of the Law School Professors not only contain the seat numbers and names of the respective occupants, but, in addition, over each name is inserted the grade gained last year by each student. No doubt I have carelessly invaded the privacy of academic secrecy. But, tell me, is that one of your regular customs here at Harvard? Would a poll of the faculty assist any in reaching an answer? If so, by all means let us have...
That such conditions existed at various times has often been suspected. It is well known that low-grade or "correspondence medical schools" have dispensed diplomas to unqualified persons after absurdly inadequately " courses." Kansas City and St. Louis have been hotbeds of such fraudulent institutions, but have had no monopoly...