Word: grades
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American school system, from first grade through college [has become] a huge kindergarten." So last week declared self-exiled Schoolmaster Philip Marson. who quit famed Boston Latin School last June after teaching English there for 31 years. Marson's reason for walking out: "I could then say what had to be said without gloves...
After heated and prolonged debate, Council members voted to recommend letter grading in all tutorial. The grade would be based on the tutor's evaluation of the student's work, and on a final essay graded by someone other than the tutor. The CEP has recommended grading and qualifying examinations at the end of the sophomore and junior years...
...committed the outrage with all the innocence in the world. One day last December she inadvertently dismissed her fourth-grade class late, found that the school bus, which normally takes three of her boys home, had already left. She offered to drive the boys home herself. But as luck would have it, she found that her car had a flat tire. Just then, a Negro school bus drove into sight, and one of the boys, Pat Taylor, 9, sensibly pointed out that "it goes right by my house." Teacher Baskin assured the boy that she would drive him home once...
...auburn-haired Gracie bowed out of one of television's most successful comedy shows, George Burns, now 62, insisted that he would go on without her. He will also continue as head of TV's moneymaking McCadden Productions (Bob Cummings Show, The People's Choice). Of Grade's retirement, he said: "No one so richly deserves it. Her kind of work takes a lot out of you. Like I ask Gracie how her brother is and she talks for four minutes without stopping. That's very hard work...
...melding of wry wisdom and sly oneupmanship. Unlike such funny-page small fry as Hank Ketcham's Dennis the Menace or Jimmy Ratio's Little Iodine, its characters are disingenuous and uncute. Charlie, whose peanut-bald head is surmounted by a single dispirited curl, is a junior-grade Walter Mitty, whose highflying dreams of popularity crash in endless ignominies. Charlie's characteristic lament: "Good grief!" The chief scorpion in his child's garden of reverses is a promising young termagant named Lucy, who, with apprentice-shrews Violet and Patty, sharpens her talons on Charlie...