Word: grades
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Republican Senate appointed a committee headed by Nebraska's Robert Beecher Howell. now dead, to investigate campaign expenditures. Also last year Senator Long, by a feat of political rough-&-tumble. had his henchman John Overton, a Grade B Representative, nominated (and automatically elected) to Louisiana's other seat in the U. S. Senate. Defeated for renomination. Edwin Sidney Broussard spent his last days in Washington crying that he had been politically raped and robbed...
...most of the credit for Standard Time in the U. S. Dr. Dowd saw most of the credit for dividing the whole world into 24 time zones go to Sir Sandford Fleming, a Canadian railway engineer and university chancellor. As a final irony. Dr. Dowd was killed in a grade-crossing accident...
...much to say that the man of average mentality will spend from nine to fifteen hours weekly in the lab, three hours in lectures, an hour or two in laboratory conferences, and from two to five hours in study of texts, provided that he is working for an honor grade. Thus, to learn the subject and receive a good mark, it is often necessary to spend a total of twenty-five hours a week on one subject, and it is hardly possible to escape with less than fifteen frenzied hours of effort...
...used to support the April examination. In the case of full courses especially, the latter forms no mirror of mutual acquaintance between pupil and instructor. It is simply an ill-timed interruption of tutorial work and serious study, an organized period of cramming brought on in order that a grade, seldom considered in averaging the final mark, may be returned to University Hall. As is recognized by most members of the faculty, the very brevity of the hour examination renders it a ridiculously inadequate gauge of scholastic calibre. It has become a more battle of wits between platform and bench...
...judge from recent developments, it is probable that a concerted movement to abolish April hours will meet with little opposition. Instructors openly admit that only the necessity for returning a grade at April causes them to sanction this rude interruption of their programs. The liberal attitude of University Hall toward the matter is demonstrated by the decision last year to exempt Senior honors candidates at the discretion of course leaders. A slight push by the Student Council might well send the April hours into oblivion, and administer a suitable coup de grace to a bit of red tape outgrown with...