Word: graded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prevent an accumulation of officers in the junior grade, regulations covering the Reserve Corps provide for promotion of such officers...
Officers to be eligible for promotion must have held one grade for at least three years, and they will come before examining boards, that will be conveniently located, where they will be examined for general, physical, moral and professional fitness. In computing these required three years in any grade, credit will be given for service since November 11, 1918, with double credit for active service that was rendered during hostilities from April 6, 1917, to the armistice. The subjects on which he will be examined to determine his professional fitness will cover those subjects of a military character relating...
...Crimson players. Yale easily defeated Tufts 6-1 on June 8, and Princeton, in an early season game, barely pulled out ahead of the Medford team 5-4, in twelve innings. On April 14 Tufts completely outplayed Fordham, winning 6-2, but against the high grade Holy Cross team, on May 7, Tufts managed to hit safely but twice, and lost...
...unanimous decision of university authorities a lumber jack forty-two years of age--an engineering student in the University of Washington whose education until a year ago was confined to the seventh grade of an Irish grammar school--was termed one of the twenty-five most brilliant minds in the United States. This honor was conferred upon him as a result of making a perfect score in the army "alpha" intelligence test. He required only thirteen of the seventeen minutes allowed to complete the test, a feat which was une ualed by any of the 3,000,000 service...
...sufficient cause for "discipline"--because he refused to recognize the fact that the responsibility for their collegiate behavior was no longer in his hands. It is disheartening, to say the very least, after passing a course fairly, and with no summons from the Office, to have one's grade lowered at the insistence of an instructor who considers that his lectures have been slighted, and that the "morale" of his course must be upheld. Several of such cases this year have resulted in placing the offenders on probation...