Word: grading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Limit Grade in Some Courses...
Council suggested yesterday that sections should not be replaced by the tutorial groups because this would be unfair to freshmen and non-concentrators, and that tutorial should not be restricted by single course limits. The Annex council also recommended that instead of a single pass or fail grade, each student should receive yearly a written report on his work. These reports, not single grades, would be incorporated into individual permanent records; the Council thought the single-grade system would be unfair in borderline cases...
...eyed youngster in a floppy cap, shot to stardom in Charlie Chaplin's first feature-length picture, The Kid. Last week, bald, broke and all but forgotten, Coogan, 37, took what he could get in the way of a film job: a cowboy character part in a grade B western. Chaplin, now rich, white-haired, often mated (to four wives) and much berated (for his pinko leanings), announced that he had played the part of the Tramp for the last time. To Columnist Sidney Skolsky he said: "I've retired him. I'll never play him again...
...miles from Tucson, lies the nation's biggest untapped source of copper. It is the 4,411-acre San Manuel field, which geologists estimate contains 460 million tons of ore-enough to last the U.S. for about three years. But it has not been exploited because the low-grade ore would be enormously expensive to mine and process...
Admission to the program does not hinge on any specific educational requirements. Of the 98 men and six women who have enrolled since 1942, few have earned college degrees and some have not even finished grade school: their average age is about 35 years...