Word: grading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Notre Dame (founded 1842) which has had pre-eminent football teams for a decade, announced a new standard of scholarship: to enter, high-school students must have stood in the first scholastic two-thirds of their classes; to be graduated, Notre Dame students-footballers included- must maintain a general grade...
...much, offered a $5,000 prize to that wise man who can convince him of the earth's rotundity. Many wise men have tried, but wiser Dr. Voliva refuses to be shown. He argues that if the world were round, trains and boats could not make the uphill grade of its curvature; that people at the bottom would tumble off. When he heard that Commander Byrd planned to explore the South Pole he sent many warnings that the rim of the world is a hazardous place. Now he says that Commander Byrd was indeed lucky that a big wall...
...Louise Ross, assistant director of the nature study department of Los Angeles high schools. She and Director Charles Lincoln Edwards thought that something should be done to acquaint the children with this useful animal. They enlisted Dairyman Dutter. He discovered that 50% of the children up to the third grade, 20% of the older ones, had never seen...
Before the War a comparatively small number of low-grade Egyptians smoked hashish and opium, with little appreciable social harm. At the War's end a Greek chemist introduced cocaine to high Egyptian society. The middle classes took up the fad. Then came heroin. Now, it is estimated, one out of 28 Egyptians is a dope addict, and one out of 56 dazzles himself with heroin...
...premedical colleges to urge that their courses provide the prospective doctor with a sound foundation of learning and culture. It has reached up to the hospitals where medical graduates, to have the confidence and respect of practitioners, must now spend at least one year as internes. Every high grade, that is "acceptable," medical school now requires at least two years college work from its matriculants. A few require four years and a baccalaureate degree (A.B. or B.S.), a policy initiated by Johns Hopkins in 1893. College, medical school and interneship bring a medical student (about 22.000 are now preparing themselves...