Word: graded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cannot do. Last year one boy attended about a quarter of the section meetings and a fifth of the lectures in a sociology course, and still ended up with a "B". Another, whose numerical average for the year in Economics A was 86 per cent, got a final grade of "C plus; too many cuts." The printed regulation stretches to include both these extremes. Each course is free to make its own rules on the number of cuts it will allow its students to take, and each section man can more or less freely interpret those rules. This forces...
...section man completely disregarded cuts, Harvard University would become a magnificent correspondence school. If he went to the opposite extreme, student life would be regulated by a voluminous collection of rules definitely stating so many cuts per term, per grade group, per subject. Either of these possibilities is undesirable. Our present system of leaving all judgment to the discretion of the instructor is better, except that it often costs the student an important mark to find out how his section man judges...
...Alabama steelmaker is Republic, which took over volatile Gulf States Steel three years ago. At Gadsden and Thomas, its eleven furnaces, 94 coke ovens are straining to turn out 650,000 tons of steel annually. Republic's district boss, Charles L. Bransford, must worry over his low-grade ore reserves. Instead of envying T. C. I.'s higher-grade ore, he built a pilot mill, is experimenting to find better ways to smelt his resources...
...into an argument with a reporter (Scripps-Howard's grey little Fred Perkins) who wanted to know whether he really meant what he had said at Cleveland last fortnight about retiring after Term III.* Mr. Roosevelt's Dutch temper flared. Newsman Perkins ought to go back to grade school, said he, and learn English...
There are two grade-B pictures at the U. T. One is B minus, the other is B plus...