Word: grades
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...receive an honor grade in the course. I found the marking fair and impartial. The reading assigned was not onerous, tests were few, and essays often replaced hour examinations. The midyear and final examinations gave a wide latitude of choice in the questions, and the papers were not red-pencilled for meticulous factual errors...
...have been guessed by a few Freshman at this time, the primary objective of the four years at Harvard is to receive an education along scholastic lines, to make the required grade for a graduating degree. Secondary to this comes the extra-curricular work which perhaps gives one as great an education. But in order to receive this outside experience one must choose his field wisely, and above all he must limit that field just to one, in order that he may properly devote his attention to it and in the end succeed. Too many follow the appeal...
...Jack Hamilton's past, orders him away from Daughter Sally. Lacking the gusto of Maxwell House's Show Boat, The Gibson Family's first program was chiefly remarkable for its experiment with new music. Much of its dialog was silly and few of its singers were Grade A. Particularly objectionable to first nighters was the "baby talk" of one girl performer (Loretta Clemens). Last week's best song: "Under Your Spell...
...traditional auction. There he does not have to take the prices offered. But since the farmer is perpetually hard up and the principal tobacco buyers can be numbered on the fingers, he actually has little choice. His neighbor at another warehouse may receive a higher price for the same grade of tobacco at the same time...
...small measure this haphazard system exists because there is no Tobacco Exchange. A group of Manhattan brokers, however, have decided that there will be a futures market within a week. Highest hurdle they had to jump was to find a satisfactory grade of tobacco to use as the standard trading medium. There are countless grades "of cotton but the base contract is Middling ? in. Upland. All departures from the standard grade are adjusted between buyer & seller. Likewise the New York Tobacco Exchange, instead of dealing in Bright Flue-cured, Dark-fired Kentucky, Burley, One-sucker, Green River, Black...