Word: grading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...purpose of the changes is to emphasize the mastery of a subject rather than the acquisition of a certain grade, and will put the greater part of the responsibility for understanding the subject in the hands of the student. The new scholastic requirements will permit a student to be admitted to the University only after he has successfully completed the entire work of the Freshman year...
...made his role the supreme embodiment of a type. He is helped by Mervyn Leroy's fine directing and by the fact that W. R. Burnett's story was comprehensive, telling the whole of the gangster's life. You see Little Caesar starting in business as a low-grade stickup man whose specialty is robbing gasoline stations. He works his way up step by step in the outlaw gang-civilization of a big city. Only one man, the mysterious "Big Boy" is higher than he when his luck changes. He loses his power, his money, becomes a flophouse derelict...
...getting by." Because of the size of the entering class, the larger freedom in the selection of courses as compared with most other colleges, the wide variety of schools from which the men come and especially the fact that at Harvard students must be prepared for work of university grade at the beginning of the Sophomore instead of the Junior year, the problems of transition will always be more difficult than in the average college, the pace faster, and the rate of mortality somewhat higher. But if we are to derive the best possible results from the raw material which...
Also, an attempt should be made to stimulate a larger number of Freshmen to do the high grade of work which their school and admission records indicate that they are capable of achieving. To a large extent, the work of the Freshman year is geared to the average individual. The new student who enters Harvard with a high admission record and a brilliant showing in his last year at school may find that in some of his courses very little effort is needed to make a "C," or perhaps he takes an elementary course when he is actually prepared...
Much uneasiness was caused last week by the continued decline in the bond market. Second-grade bonds have dropped in alarming fashion; the best bonds have slumped at an angle almost unprecedented. One reason given is the need of many an institution to have much cash on hand. Another is that new bond financing for eleven months this year was $5,300,000,000 against $3,671,000,000 all last year, that bond digestion is clogged. Said the venerable, owl-wise Commercial & Financial Chronicle last week: "It is bad enough to see stock prices going all tx> smash...