Word: grading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Playhouse (CBS-TV), in a tailor-made drama called Run, Girl, Run, Lee Ann Meriwether, 19, better known as Miss America of 1955, got some encouragement from two previous titleholders, Yolande Betbeze ('51) and Jean Bartel ('43). Asked why so few of her predecessors had made the grade as successful actresses, Lee Ann had a blandly optimistic answer. "A lot of the girls haven't wanted it," purred...
...never takes a vacation ("I get enough vacation from having a change of troubles")-though he does have a hobby, a miniature train named Lilly Belle (after his wife), and a half-mile of track to run it on. Lacking a formal education-he quit school in the ninth grade-Walt has few formal habits of thought. He cannot bear to read a book ("I'd rather have people tell me things").* Yet his intellectual weakness only throws him back the more strongly on his principal strength: a deep, intuitive identification with the common impulses of common people...
...decided to go to France as an ambulance driver. He managed to get his mother to sign his father's name on a parental permit, then he forged the date of his birth, and was off. Home again, he was no longer interested in the ninth grade. "I tried to decide," he says, "was I going to be an actor or an artist...
...group of Law School students will meet during the coming two months to re-examine the school's present grading system. As they deliberate about grade distinctions, they should also be careful to separate the problems they are trying to solve. Although the agitation which led to their investigation was largely caused by employers' exaggeration of actually minute differences in class ranking, many suggested solutions of this problem have emphasized changing the present competitive system itself. Now may indeed be the time to ask seriously whether heavy competition is good for the Law School, but revamping the system will...
...Grades in Law School ordinarily mean money later on, and under the school's present system, each student is ranked numerically according to his class standing, from one to about 500. The grade distinctions between 62 and 70 on exams--in the large C group--are largely artificial. So a difference of no more than one point in this scale can lead to unjustified distinctions in class standing. There is actually a negligible variance between number 175 and number 250 in the class. When employers, however, examine class records, they often assume that individual differences in this particular group equal...