Word: grading
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sophomore year arrives, and one eventful night Y, the butterfly, is informed that he has been advanced a grade in the social scale. He emerges from his room the next morning with a fine feeling of self-satisfaction tingling in his spinal marrow. He feels it necessary to show his importance to the world. On his way to breakfast he meets X, but instead of bowing he looks intently at a scrap of paper in the street, or tries to "read the answer in the stars," or something of that kind, for he is now of another world...
...however poor his capabilities in that direction may be, to a fair command of English. Now, a regulation has appeared which refuses admittance to English 12, one of the most practical and useful courses in the English department, to any man who shall have fallen below a certain grade in English B; a grade which many a conscientious student may fail to reach by need of that very training which is thus forbidden him. The only reason given is the crowding of the course. If any must be deprived of the advantages it would seem to be more just...
Next year, men will be admitted to Eglish 12, if they have not obtained grade C in English...
...some difficult course they find a man who is their inferior in some other branch of work, far ahead of them in marks. The rule is impolitic, as it is a standing invitation to take only such courses as one feel he is reasonably sure of a good grade in. A man who has received high marks for two or three years hardly cares to court a D by taking a subject that he realizes he may get that mark on,- no matter though the course be both desirable and beneficial. The rule stands as a temptation to take snap...
...Rent is the difference between the productive power of any given lot of land and the worst piece of land that it pays to cultivate; and so profit is the difference between the net assets of any business firm and the surplus of an employer of the lowest possible grade obtained with the same amount of capital and goods. And this surplus must be due to the superior ability of the man himself, since in the same town with the same amount of capital one man will clear more in a year than another at the same trade. This then...