Word: grading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Human Growth won enthusiastic approval. Of 1,131 persons polled, 91.2% wanted their children to see the film. A frequent student reaction: "Can we see it again?" Most surprising parental reaction: "Why wait until the seventh grade...
...West's No. i seaport, last week pulled a small coup. It became the third U.S. port to establish a "free trade zone" (the others: New York and New Orleans). In the zone, next to picturesque Fisherman's Wharf, foreign shippers may unload, transship, sort, grade and indefinitely store their merchandise without putting up bonds or going through other costly red tape. Only such goods as are brought into the U.S. are dutiable. The zone will be surrounded by stout wire, and patrolled, to prevent smuggling. Los Angeles fears the zone will lure so many ships to Frisco...
Huckster Nietzsche. The 19th Century's Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche made the grade in 20th Century advertising. In the New York Times, John Ward shoe stores led off an ad for a "neither staid nor stuffy" shoe with the Nietzschean quote: "I am not successful at being pompous...
Recent publicity for the 1934 Faculty vote eliminating the Seven Weeks' Grade" has brought to light another policy decision announced at the same time, one which has faded so completely since the war that few people known that it ever existed. This ruling, made by the Faculty after a suggestion from Dean Hanford, provided that "the return to the Dean's Office of attendance in courses taken primarily by Juniors and Seniors should be given up expect at the last meetings before and the first meetings after the Christmas and spring recesses...
...week and the rest of the time go on about his business; 2) if it is long, the student is forced to specialize to an undesirable degree on one minute point; and 3) criticism and discussion of the student's work may consist of nothing more than a pencilled grade from a harassed anonymous section man, or at most a ten or fifteen minute discussion with a tutor or section man alone on the specific problems of the paper...