Word: grading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Negro education in Georgia is a disgrace. What the Negro child gets in the sixth grade, the white child gets in the third grade." This appraisal of the Southern Negro's classroom plight came neither from a Northerner nor a N.A.A.C.P. propagandist; it was pronounced in 1948 by Fred Hand, then the speaker of Georgia's own House of Representatives. Hand's observation has now been expanded and documented in a beacon-bright study titled The Negro Potential (Columbia University; $3). The book, containing a statistics-studded chapter on Negro education in the U.S., was produced...
...following the example of many other dental schools and making its degree easy of acquisition, the School could undoubtedly be made to succeed as a commercial venture; but it is no object to the profession or the community that another school of low grade should be maintained, since there are more than enough of that kind already; and Harvard University may properly refuse to carry on such a school...
...pored long and well over his lessons. Citing the exceptional case of a deaf student whose answers were perfect in an oral examination on canon law, Dean Suñer recalls that months later he learned that the lad's ears were as excellent as the grade he got. His hearing aid was actually a chuleta, a two-way phone with a wire running from the student to the back of the large classroom, where an accomplice, armed with a canon-law textbook, dictated flawless responses directly into the examinee's ear. Said...
Mine the Rock. Fortunately, Dr. Brown says, ore deposits get bigger as they fall in grade. Clay, which is everywhere, is a low-grade aluminum ore, and sulphur can be extracted from plentiful calcium sulphate (gypsum). Even ordinary rocks can be processed for their minerals. One hundred tons of an average igneous rock, e.g., granite, contain eight tons of aluminum, five tons of iron, 1,200 lbs. of titanium, 180 lbs. of manganese, 70 lbs. of chromium, etc. Dr. Brown believes that the time may come when rock is refined into 20 or 30 products. Rock reserves will last indefinitely...
Something Besides Baseball. By the time he got home that fall, Robin had begun to suspect that there might be something else besides playing ball. He asked his sister Nora if she knew any girls he might ask for a date. Nora fixed him up with a young grade-school teacher fresh from the University of Wisconsin, a pretty brunette named Mary Ann Kalnes. Mary had never seen a big-league game; Robin could talk only about baseball. So the happy couple went to the movies, where conversation is sometimes helpful but not compulsory. "We evidently got along," says Robin...