Word: grading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Grade Grabbing...
...plus instead of a B-minus has meant a boy cannot continue in College, just because he has fallen into some hard luck," Dean Leighton stated. Because of the existence of the present arbitrary rule, an existence of the present arbitrary rule, an excessive emphasis is placed on "grade grabbing," he remarked...
...argument offered against the substitution of papers for tests is that a better writer will get an undeservedly high grade. This same complaint is applicable to examinations, however, and perhaps even more justly. The papers by themselves, moreover, help men learn how to organize their thoughts on paper. The General Education report made one of its less renowned but important points on this account, urging short essays on assigned topics as a means toward fulfilling the important points on this account, urging short essays on assigned topics as a means toward fulfilling the important educational function of teaching people...
Anaconda Copper Mining Co., which had grown into the world's biggest copper producer from the "richest hill on earth," had no such intentions. Cornelius Francis Kelley, Anaconda's board chairman, knew that there was plenty of low-grade ore to bolster the company's high-grade operations ; the trick was to find a way of digging it cheaply enough to make...
...rectangular shaft big enough (38 ft. by 9 ft.) to accommodate the machinery needed for the Kelley plan. It will be driven down to 3,400 ft., cutting straight through the old galleries where the best of the rich ore has been mined. To get out the low-grade ore, miners will work out from Kelley's shaft into abandoned levels, blast off huge blocks of ore-the first time for such a method at such depths. Oversize buckets and mine cars will haul out the ore for the smelters...