Word: graded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...teaching in the high schools such a large teaching staff is needed that necessarily a considerable part of it must be of rather low grade with regard to scientific capabilities and scientific understanding. . . . Under these circumstances it can only be good if persons who have shown unusual scientific ability . . . are drawn into high-school teaching...
...years ago a sadly disillusioned French girl packed her meagre belongings, said a bitter good-by to New York, took the first boat home. She had been in a Grade D .Shubert show. Its run was short. No one took much notice of the songs she sang. Basso Feodor Chaliapin and La Argentina, the dancer, were equally unfortunate on their first U. S. visits, but both had sensational comebacks. Last week luck had changed for Lucienne Boyer...
...what they have read during the week because they are bored and realize that the other members of the section should have read the same thing. On the other hand, a poor man will not expose his difficulties because his misunderstanding will probably be the cause of a lower grade. If the value given to discussion in the sections could be reduced there would result a franker discussion of greater value to the students...
Last year more than 1,700 men and women enrolled in the courses, which are of college grade and all given by faculty members of the cooperating institutions: namely, Harvard, Tufts College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston College, Boston University, Museum of Fine Arts, Wellesley College, Simmons College, Massachusetts Board of Education, and the School Committee of the City of Boston...
...back-country farm in south Mississippi. One of eight children, he worked as a laundryman, mill hand and news butcher to pay his way through college. From his book learning he drew dividends by teaching mathematics and Latin for six years at Aaron Academy, Nicholson High School, in grade schools at Bayou Encent, Anner, Kiln and Wiggins. At this time he was licensed but not ordained as a Southern Baptist minister. And then he got into politics...