Word: grades
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the posteards enclosed in the History I exam books, to be returned with the grade, was one bearing the address "Boylston Hall Library. Cambridge," and another "South Lake Trall, Palm Beach, Florida." The former was got picked with the idea of playing up Boylston Hall as an ideal winter resort, but rather to offer contrast instead...
...other two men in the story, however, are too orthodox to live in complete harmony with such spontaneous unrepresed people. The father, a Dutch banker, tries very hard to be broad-minded, but he can't quite make the grade. The moral behavior of the girl's "uh--friend," as the banker describes him, is the most delightfully surprising of all, even though it may be the hardest to reconcile with the idea of a real, consistent personality...
Better-Speech pupils get 15 pamphlets providing the equivalent of eighth-grade instruction in grammar, pronunciation, vocabulary. They are told that it is not so elegant to say "we couldn't get along without the typewriter" as "the typewriter is an indispensable office appliance...
...student's advantage that his name be known to the correcter. But in large courses in other fields where examinations are not marked blindly there is apt to exist injustice; knowing the owner of a paper, an instructor is influenced by personal feeling. At all times, however, a grade is subject to the correcter's whim and mood of the moment...
...DANGEROUS YEARS - Gilbert Frankau-Button ($2.50). Lengthy (686 pages), second-grade family chronicle about second-grade English nobility, relieved by well-spaced sudden deaths; by a veteran author, still doing business at the old stand...