Word: grades
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seventy per cent of a candidate's grade depended on an intelligence test, which asked definitions of words like "complex" and posed simple problems in arithmetic and algebra. Balance of the examination, however, was an observation and memory test which would have taxed the discerning powers of a Philo Vance...
...loved to watch them. It made tears come into his eyes when they stood up and softly sung of alma mater. Gus, though he had never passed out of the eighth grade, always felt as if he were a Swanson...
...unfair. The contention of others that they benefit by a review of their studies is true to a certain extent, but a quizzing of trivial details contributes little to one's education, while those broader essay subjects which evoke individual thought require more time. If some mid-semester's grade is necessary, then to submit term papers would be far more profitable than hour exams. Irksome and worthless, those relics of juvenile schooling ought long ago to have been relegated to the limbo of the birch...
...Knoedler's again made news with another important loan show. On exhibition were 31 canvases by Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot. Carefully selected, the pictures clearly revealed the charm which has made Corot a necessity in every big museum in the world, has caused him to be included in most Grade A private collections. Surprisingly realistic were his Femme Accoudee (lent by Horace Havermeyer), his peasant woman taking care of her child on the seashore (from the Pennsylvania Museum of Art). Critics were amused by his able portrait of his sister who looked like ZaSu Pitts...
...Trexlers are far dispersed from their Pennsylvania homestead: to California, Iowa, New Jersey, Washington. Only one of them has gone up in the world, and for him, as for his capitalist brothers, Author Herbst implies, "the executioner waits." Of the Trexler descendants who are economically on the down grade, most do what they can to keep from slipping farther, think of little else besides; but a few are so close to the ground that their ears hear a prophetic rumbling. A novel without a hero. The Executioner Waits is a modern tragedy in the most present sense: its changing choruses...