Word: graded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under the present system the men who are admitted from the upper seventh of their class without exams find themselves willy nilly in Professor Hillyer's course. Beginning with the Class of 1940 these men may be exempted by passing a two-hour exam with a grade of 75 on the Friday preceding the opening of College...
...other reform in the qualifications for entering English A effects preparatory school graduates who fail to pass the Board examination with a grade of 75. It they take a year of postgraduate work, as at Exeter or Andover, they also receive a special examination for exemption at the beginning of College...
...lifeless burden, and the present attempt of University Hall to reduce the membership in this intellectual chain gang shows a liberality which will be dully appreciated by incoming Freshmen. In the past the only ones to escapade the penalty were those prep school students who had achieved an honor grade in their College Board examination in English, this system being a distant discrimination against that large group entering under the highest seventh plan...
...student who has not received an honor grade in his College Board examination, a needlessly complicated system has been devised. Since in most prep schools the College Board in English is taken in the senior year, there is no chance for the repeating course suggested by University Hall. Even if such a repeat could be made, it would be a complete waste of time to take another prep school course in English merely because one has failed to receive an honor grade in the first. Unless a man has failed his English College Board he, too, should be allowed...
...biggest and most successful co-operatives in the world, Russia included, California Fruit Growers Exchange evolved from local marketing associations started in Southern California in the 1890's. Today growers belong to packing associations which grade and pack their fruit at cost. The packing associations belong to district associations, which in turn elect the 25 directors who govern the big central Exchange. No fruit except citrus is handled...