Word: grades
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...country. The team promises to remind Dartmouth hockey followers of the time when Myles Lane captained the aggregation which made Dartmouth hockey history back in 1927. The improvement comes at a particularly welcome time, for since those days hockey in Hanover has been definitely on the down grade...
Thus Joseph Mason Reeves, native of Tampico, Ill. first displayed gallantry in Naval action. Four years later he was a lieutenant, junior grade, aboard the Oregon when under forced draft that famed warship made her record run from San Francisco around Cape Horn to arrive just in time for the Battle of Santiago. For "eminent and conspicuous conduct in battle" he was advanced four numbers in rank...
...master the intricacies of accounting, 23% ranged in academic ability between the average seventh-grader and the high school junior. To the study of electrical engineering, architecture and chemical engineering, only 20% of the Minnesota aspirants had brought high-school training. More than one-sixth had not finished grade school. Considerably less than half of the would-be advertising men, lawyers, executives had finished high school...
...continued the old business with branches in eight U. S. cities. Mike Devlet organized his own municipal bond house as follows: he set up six individual concerns each operated by its own partners, and each a specialist in a particular branch of the business. One was to sell high grade bonds, another land bank and Home Owners Loan bonds, a third Southern municipals. One was to act as broker for the others. Reports on municipal bonds were to be furnished by a bureau known as the Municipal Yardstick. Over all was to preside The National Marketplace for Municipal Securities...
...declares: "There are always a number of able and ambitious students who will do work of honor quality without the need of stimulation; the important thing is to stir up the marginal group of 15 to 20 percent who are capable of achieving something more than a gentleman's grade...