Word: graded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seven weeks' rule. This rule, which is in effect today, requires that all undergraduates taking regular undergraduate courses must be tested and given a mid-term mark before the end of the seventh week of every term. Although in some cases a paper may count as the seven weeks' grade in the over whelming majority of instances the mark is based on the results of an hour exam. The rule was established because the Faculty felt that veterans returning to Harvard were naturally out of the practice of taking exams; in view of the emphasis the graduate schools were placing...
...crest of a long Allegheny mountain grade last week, the Pennsylvania's slick Sunshine Special stopped to uncouple an engine. Suddenly, the rear Pullman broke loose. Like a runaway in the Perils of Pauline, it swept back downhill...
Dewey's plan did away with the age-old difference in elementary and high-school pay scales on the grounds that "it is just as important to get good teaching for children in the grade schools as for children in the high schools." The new plan also struck at an evil that had corroded the New York City, Buffalo and Rochester school systems for years: it nearly doubled the pay of substitute teachers, thereby all but wiped out the sweatshop system of "permanent substitutes." (There are 5,500 New York State substitutes, some of whom have been teaching regularly...
...They may achieve a satisfactory grade on placement examinations given in French, German, and Spanish at the beginning of each term...
...They may pass a second year language course in the College with a grade of C or better...