Word: grades
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...jesting friend or a bold enemy would call him "Cajun," a term usually applied to semiliterate or illiterate poor folk of French descent.-ED. No Shorts Sirs: On Sept. 23, p. 13, you stated in your publication that Airs. Franklin D. Roosevelt "spent a morning at her brother Grade Hall Roosevelt's cottage on Brown's Lake near Jackson, Mich., while neighbors with field glasses ogled the First Lady disporting herself on the beach in shorts." We assume that this report is based on information which originally appeared in the Citizen Patriot and later was carried on press...
...prepare. It embraced, he admitted, "radical changes'" de-signed to fit education to the individual pupil. Under Dr. Bayne's idyllic system, every pupil, smart or dull, would progress steadily through six years of grammar school, three of junior high, three of senior high. With him from grade to grade would go a complete case history. If his interests were unacademic, he would take cultural or practical courses. He would be stimulated rather than forced to work, would practically never fail of promotion...
...students in eastern colleges. "A well written essay or series of book reports handed in during the early part of the semester smooths the way for the entire year's work." "All 1 need to know is the name of the course, the special subject of the theme, the grade desired, and a tentative reading list if you have one. I send the study to you typewritten, complete, carefully footnoted, ready to submit to the professor, and a carbon copy for your own use." "Steady customers are always given the preference...
Daniel N. Adams, of New York City, and James B. Gordon, of Battle Creek, Mich., have been selected as co-winners of the Joseph H. Beale Prize at the Harvard Law School, awarded annually to the student who obtains the highest grade in the annual June examination in Confitet of Laws, it was announced today. Both men were third year students at the Law School last year...
Dewey Roberts (Frank M. Thomas Jr.), a high-strung seventh-grade schoolboy, lives in the Midwest but has a burning love of boats and the sea. He adores his young teacher (Francesca Burning) because she hails from New Bedford, knows what a jibboom is, encourages his enthusiasm. When Dewey finds her kissing the athletic coach, whom he also idolizes, he is heartbroken, persuades his bumbling father (Frank M. Thomas Sr.) to send him to boarding school. Twenty years later Dewey, now an extremely important personage in the shipping industry encounters the teacher, dowdy and myopic, in a Washington hotel...