Word: grades
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...supposed to write "orations." But take the case of the man of general intelligence, who, however, has not devoted himself to any special topic. He has attained an average of eighty-five per cent. in his three years' course, and therefore gets a degree magna cum laude, a grade below the other man. Of course every student knows the relative value of these degrees, obtained under such circumstances, and that the "magna cum" man is generally a better representative of Harvard than the man with a summa cum, but the outside world does not. Any stranger hearing that...
...take examinations at the same times that the corresponding classes in the college were having them, and the papers used in our classes have been, by the courtesy of the college, the same that were used for the men. The examinations have been very satisfactory and the general grade of excellence such that the instructors have expressed approval of the students. The marks, which are preserved, are generally high...
...June 11, 1878, which provides, that from and after July 1, 1882, only such number of the graduates of the United States Military Academy in any one year shall be entitled to appointment as second lieutenants in the army as are required to fill vacancies of that grade existing on the first day of July in each year, those entitled to appointment to said vacancies to be determined by the academic board on the basis of their standing in the graduating class; and hereafter no supernumerary officers shall be attached to any company or corps of the army...
...Yale Courant reports that it has been found by actual count that of the students assigned to four divisions according to scholarship, 25 per cent of the highest grade use tobacco, 48 per cent of the second, 70 per cent of the third, and 85 per cent of the fourth. The majority of the students at Cornell have, it is said, resolved to give up smoking on the ground of its bad effect upon the health and capacity for study...
...Little Beauties are made from the highest grade of Virginia sun-cured leaf, blended with Turkish tobacco of our own importation, and smoke mild, with a most agreeable aroma and taste. We guarantee them pure and free from artificial flavoring or drugs...