Word: graded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lecture. Two or three of the men, however, are stimulating to listen to; they do not conceal their enthusiasm. In most courses the student is treated as an intelligent person. Problems are assigned, but failure to hand them in does not necessarily have any effect on the final grade. In some courses, however, high school methods are still employed by the instructors...
Changes in Biology A and Geology 4 and 5 are the most important alterations in the curriculum for next year revealed is the preliminary Announcement of Courses recently published. Men receiving a grade of A or B in Biology A will hereafter be allowed to count the course to fulfill the introductory concentration requirement in that field and may be admitted to more advanced courses on that basis. Formerly students were required to take Zoology 1 and Botany 1 in place of Biology A for concentration in the field...
...culturally advantageous, while allied fields permit courses in Geology, Meteorology, Anthropology, Economics, or History. The tutorial reading covers the fundamental and philosophic conceptions of geography; most of the list would be considered fascinating reading even to those whose ides of geographical studies are based solely on boring grade school memories...
...type when they see their productions in print. To write an editorial, to see it in print, to hear it discussed and to remain anonymous,--there is all the thrill that any man could desire. And the price is not too great; for most men who try the grade find that a more careful account of their time and closer concentration when actually studying result in marks as good if not better than were customary before entering the competition...
...troupe. Ten years ago George Burns and Gracie Allen teamed up in vaudeville in Boonton, N. J. at $10 a performance. At first it was Gracie who played the exasperated "straight" to George's fatuous lines. Audiences awarded George's gags a crash of silence, roared at Grade's twittery voice, her air of blissful inanity. They promptly changed places. Three years later in Cleveland George Burns and Gracie Allen were married by a peace justice who was in a hurry to go fishing. Their taxi ticked up only 15? waiting time...