Word: grades
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There can be no dispute about the ineffectual training with which the average freshman enters college. "Adequate preparation," is indeed vitally necessary. The very existence of rigid examinations, however, makes this preparation more difficult by emphasizing the value of a passing grade rather than of genuine education. Since this is true, some substitute for the present system must be evolved...
...take English A, for lack of any examination record of their knowledge of grammar and literature. But in common with many of their classmates, they are not greatly delighted with the course, and for many of them it is no more necessary than for those who receive the grade of 75 or better in the English College Board and are thereby exempted...
William Agnew Johnston, 86. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Kansas, served the 365th day of his 50th year on one bench, thereby setting a record which Kansans promptly acclaimed as unique among U. S. judges. Born in Oxford, Ont. and educated only in country grade schools, Kansas' "Grand Old Man" was first appointed to the State's Supreme Court in 1884, re-elected every six years. In 1903 he became Chief Justice. More loyal are Kansans to Oldster Johnston than to any other individual or ideal except Prohibition. Said he last week: "I have hoped that I might...
Professor Packard is a good teacher. There are discussions on the speeches which often provoke feeling debate. The work is not unreasonably hard. However, since the course is composed largely of upper-classmen whose greater experience may make you suffer by comparison with a corrcapounding influence on your grade you must possess some real interest in it. Mr. Packard's consent is required...
These two half-courses which cover the same ground under different men in successive terms, demand a high grade on the entrance examination. Chemistry A. or a course in Physics. As a general rule, you should not attempt to break these requirements unless you have had excellent previous fraining...