Word: grading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kaye may yet have his way. For despite his knowledge of Wall Street which won the NBC-TV award, Ross only stands in the top half of the seventh grade in Tujunga, Calif., which is not likely to get him into Harvard...
Under a tentative five-year plan, Morrilton would get for its 1,848 white and 418 Negro students, and its 58 white and 14 Negro teachers, a new high school and as many new grade schools as needed, with special facilities for handicapped children and special classes for exceptional children, increased library and physical-education facilities, expanded programs for fine arts and music, personal guidance and health, raises for teachers. But Morrilton would have to increase school taxes to pay for the difference between the Rockefeller contribution and the plan's estimated cost of $3,000,000. It would...
...Bright "C" students can now win Harvard scholarships that once were reserved for "A" and "B" students only, whether bright or not. Two of the university's graduates, Robert and Arnold Hoffman, have established a $5,000 fund for "needy students who do not quite make scholarship grade." The Hoffmans said: "We felt that very often a student who is not too outstanding in college may make good in later life...
...enough octane rating for knock-free performance in most cars. In the premium field, Esso Standard Oil Co. will soon market special "Golden Esso Extra" with octane rating of more than 97. Sun Oil Co. in Florida is blending gas at the pump, giving drivers a choice of five grades of fuel. Top-grade rating: over...
...boys of the fourth grade in a private New England day school, the big question was: Should they bother to invite the girls in the class to go along on their picnic? Finally, one boy produced the ultimate argument for the opposition. "All I know," said he, "is that Dr. Gesell says that the interest of boys at our age in the opposite sex is purely negative...