Word: grades
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...together with many other colleges, has pushed into prominence. The recent changes in Harvard College have already made their mark in the evident seriousness of students, and the independence with which the work is carried out. The House Plan and the tutorial system are both designed for a higher grade of student. Liaison between College and secondary schools is a third influence towards rising standards. Under these circumstances the noticeable increase in Freshman applications is a change that is both a natural and a necessary...
TIME pencils, fat, soft, red and labeled, are Eberhard Faber products, 7 in. long, .418 in. diameter, .165 lead. At least two other companies make the same type (Joseph Dixon Crucible Co. claims to have originated it). They are used mostly in grade schools and newspaper offices, bear trade names like "Elementary," "Childlend," "Beginners." To any subscriber in good standing who so requests, one good TIME pencil will be sent gratis...
...George Emerson Lowell Scholarships, with a stipend of $525, annually awarded to a member of the Freshman Class for "excellence in the Classics" will henceforth be awarded to the man who gets the highest grade on a special written examination in the Classics, to be given in June of each year and open to classical students in preparatory schools, it was learned yesterday at University Hall. This method of selecting the recipient of the Scholarship has been chosen in an effort to raise the standard of secondary school education in the classics, so that when the students come to Harvard...
...Baltimore & Ohio freight train. B. & O. officials, apprehensive lest the men wreck the train or kill themselves, ordered the train not to leave the yards. Then the marchers tried strategy. They deployed to Caseyville, eight miles away, waited until a string of 30 cars started to climb a steep grade there. Soaped rails and a cut air hose stalled the train, of which the marchers took informal possession. Ice melted from valuable perishable freight while railroad and county police argued with the determined mob. After 24 hours during which the railroad not only did not move 'its stranded cars...
...Forstmann is regarded as the fore most originator and maker of high-grade woolens in the U. S. He built the American Mills at Passaic, N. J., 30 years ago against the advice of experts who told him. that such woolens as his company made in Werden-on-Ruhr, Germany, could not be duplicated. He created Imperatrice and Beatrice (broadcloths) and most of the vogue-starting woolens including Marvella, Gerona, Charmeen and Chonga. He works alone in designing his fabrics and seeking colors from such sources as the plumage of birds in the Museum of Natural History. On his Kiel...