Word: grading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roland Hart awakened to find himself in a gaol cell. Making out what appeared to be a man hanging from a beam, Hart screamed, brought attendants who cut his drunken cellmate down. Then Roland Hart was told that an unknown had found him asleep in his auto on a grade crossing, had flagged a train just in time to save his life. Said Hart: "I'm glad I could give some one an even break...
...Haven's 258 barber shops are in "what may be properly termed a high state of perfection."?Health Officer John Levi Rice, in a report last fortnight. Dr. Rice has devised a shrewd method of harrying slovenly barbers. He grades their shops as to cleanliness and sanitation, publishes the grades with names. No New Haven barber shop merits grade 100 but: 138 are between 90 and 98; 104 between 80 and 88; only 16 between 70 and 80. When a shop falls below 70, it is closed...
...Haven's cleanest, grade-98 barbers: F. W. Neuman & R. M. Rempler, Chapel St.; Pasquale Mascola, Forbes Ave.; Louis Caliendo, Lamberton St A. Trotta & C. Proto, Lombard St.; Fred Vegliante, State St. ; Angelo Tucci, Whalley Ave.; William X. Frappier, York...
...incentive to return unceasingly. The course as organized neither rises above nor falls below the average of mass instruction. It probably offers as many opportunities as, the other introductory courses in science, but no more. They all fall through the necessity of establishing a strict norm in order to grade the students as easily as possible. Therefore there is much unnecessary routine, much prep school discipline, and not a little superficiality of method...
...Geography has been more a name than an institution at Harvard. Such isolated courses as Geography 1, faintly reminiscent of the odium of a "snap", have fallen to the lot of a conspicuous minority of undergraduates. Geography as a study is only too often a memory of the fifth-grade...