Word: graded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Graduate School is concerned primarily with the preparation of teachers and a large part of its effort must necessarily be devoted to teachers in service. The Bureau of Vocational Guidance during the last year and a half has given brief courses to seventh and eighth grade teachers of Newton, Cambridge, and Providence for the purpose of preparing these teachers to introduce the class for the study of occupations. This class is concerned with pointing out the relation between education and occupational life, the general problems of the occupational world, and the nature and requirements of a number of common vocations...
...plan outlined seems to lay primary stress on examination grades, for the Princetonian advocates a system whereby "all who pass the entrance examinations with an average grade of, say, 80 or 85', should be admitted without further examination, providing, of course, they are of good moral character." If enough scholars applied the enrollment limit might be reached but the fact is that most of us are too dull to enter so easily. Although the university's aim may be to mould men, under this plan the scholar is still given the place of honor...
...finish up their career with possibly a degree with distinction, they discover that because they failed to take the Anglo-Saxon course or to fulfill some of the many other requirements, any attainment of this kind is out of their reach, even though their marks have been of honor grade...
...provision concerning the credit to be given to undergraduates in the University Summer School, to be held from July 5 to August 13, this year, has been voted by the faculty. The new ruling provides that all undergraduates who have received an average grade of "B" or better during the academic year may be allowed to count two summer courses, the equivalent of one full course in the University toward the degree of A.B. or S.B. Last summer this privelege was given only to men on the Dean's list. This new ruling has been made in order to include...
...curriculum has been along the lines of our American colleges, with eleven years of grade and secondary work required for entrance to the Freshman class, and the Junior and Senior classes have been recognized by the Turkish government as of university grade, in the French sense of the term, for the Turkish government schools are organized on the French model...