Word: graded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...athletics do not come first at University School. Says Peters: "Almost from the time they start first grade, the boys get the idea that scholarship is great stuff. In our school, it's considered good form to do good work." Once a month the older boys with grades of 87% or better get ice cream and cake for dessert, while the dullards eat applesauce or prunes. Each spring Peters declares a half-holiday in honor of old grads who have made Phi Beta Kappa and other scholastic honors at college. He usually picks the day the Cleveland Indians play...
...short & simple annals of success. When A.T. & T. got out of radio, Mark went with young NBC, quickly became a vice president. "I never could understand," he says, "why they didn't make me president." When the Blue struck out for itself, Mark made the grade. "Now," he grins, "I sit back and let the boys run the show...
...physics, with some mathematics a very handy adjunct, the field is not just a pleasant four-year exposure to a liberal education in the sciences. The vast majority of men in the department, most of them pre-medical students, are playing for keeps, since medical schools are notoriously grade-conscious...
...courses in the field are generally stiff and thorough. Men with a sizeable background in chemistry usually breeze through their first courses, but the pace gets progressively faster and the competition, notoriously grade-hungry, is enough to keep even a Conant on his toes...
...quite as bad in the South. There, many manufacturers, notably worsted weavers, were rolling along on backlogs that would carry them well into fall. Nevertheless, there were cutbacks there, too, in low-grade products...