Word: grading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...medical treatment than last year's group, in the form of removal of tonsils, adenoids, and appendices, typhoid fever inoculations, and ocular treatment. This year's class is favored with the A's in posture, claiming 23, as compared with last year's 10. C is the predominant posture grade, having been given to 48 per cent of each class. The B's and D's average about 24 per cent for each class...
Propper specializes on high grade hosiery ("At all shops serving a discreet clientele") between $3 and $6 the pair. In 1929 its gross earnings were $691,127, gathered from some 130,000 dozen pairs of stockings. Propper stock is listed on the New York Curb. When it first appeared, President Leo Propper received a note daintily written on a small card, saying: "May your stock run as well as your stockings...
...Yale hockey team may have been checked for a while at the start of a game, but has never failed to finish with a real scoring flourish, a thing which Harvard hasn't done. The secret of Yale's success seems to be in possessing a wealth of high-grade man-power and its ability to apply this power when and where it will do the most good. Harvard has shown potentialities whereas Yale has produced the goods. It remains to be seen whether the Elis can keep on going places and if the Crimson can gather sufficient momentum...
...weak as well as the good points of the student's knowledge of the course on which he has been tested. The usual habit of the average undergraduate is to forget all about the particular questions asked on the examination as soon as he has received notice of his grade in the course. A passing mark, the immediate goal, assumes precedence over the far more important aim of possessing a comprehensive acquaintance with the subject matter of the course...
HALFWAY TO HEAVEN-A trapeze story that makes the grade...