Word: grading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Family & Early Years: Born in Chicago, son of an Irish immigrant stationary fireman (boilers) and ardent trade unionist. He went through grade school and three years of night school, at 17 started work as an apprentice steam fitter, became a journeyman, then went off to World War I as a private in the 332nd Field Artillery...
Party Discipline. In East Berlin, when ninth-grade Teacher Wolfgang Triebel accused his class of turning in identical essays, the class spokesman declared heatedly that they had not copied from one another but had "worked collectively...
...commonest type of case is believed to be like the first U.S. record: the baby who gets the disease in the womb from a mother who has a smoldering, low-grade infection. The baby may be sick at birth, or not until a few weeks later. In either event, the tiny Toxoplasma invaders usually cause inflammation of the brain and spinal cord so severe that it is crippling if not fatal. (Later children of the same mother are believed to be safe because she develops antibodies...
...January of 1926 Thomas W. Slocum '90, former member of the Board of Overseers, objected to the HGC omitting "Fair Harvard" from New York programs "because the music was not of sufficiently high grade" and suggested the glee club call itself "The Harvard Gloom Club." Woodworth termed the omission "an unfortunate mistake...
Perhaps irritated by the fact only 80.2 percent of the sophomores made the grade in 1949, the Class of 1952 started to agitate for "100 percent" almost as soon as they arrived. By December 605 sophomores had pledged not to join a club unless every classmate received...