Word: grades
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This year, because qualifying tests were introduced to eliminate low-grade jumpers cluttering the field, entries have been reduced from 85 last year to 58. John Hay ("Jock") Whitney's Easter Hero, who was favorite last year, was retired at Upperville. Va., but the three horses who finished ahead?Grakle, Gregalach and Annandale?were entered again. Among the others were Sea Soldier, a nine-year-old gelding by Man O' War; "Jock" Whitney's Dusty Foot; Gordon Selfridge's steady jumper, Ruddyman; and four of Morgan D. Blair's horses?Ballyhanwood, Prince Cherry, Great Span and Aruntius...
...publicist, aged 38- should check at least 12. For Stephen, aged 7 - he has already denied Santa Claus, read Alice in Wonderland and Huckleberry Finn, and plays a fairly good game of bridge (contract, if you please). He, like Mrs. Sporleder's sons, 8 & 10, leads his grade in school...
Once, when he was in the Grade Schools, the Vagabond was found carefully engraving a heart, embracing appropriate initials, on the cover of his desk. The knife is now lost, the owner of the initials is now forgotten, along with a hundred others, but what the teacher said still rings in his ears as loudly and crassly as the day when first she said it. The phrase she used is so old as to be termed a "saw", "Fools names like fools faces oft are seen in public places". Not very funny, not very new, but biting...
...Honors in Engineering Sciences a student must in addition select two approved courses not of elementary grade, chosen from the fields of Engineering Sciences, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, and Geology
...best paper of those submitted by more than 25 colleges. This prize of $500 will be awarded at the same time the local prizes are distributed, about a month after the Harvard winners are announced. A special committee selected by A. N. Holcombe '06, professor of Government, will grade the papers and the names of prize winners will probably be announced next week. Neither the names nor standings of any contestants except the winners will be published...