Word: grading
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While a B average will remain the passing mark, graduate students will be allowed to include C's and D's in their averages if the lower grades are balanced by a suitable number of A's, Dean J. Peterson Elder of the GSAS announced yesterday. At present, students receive no credit for any grade lower than...
...Hall boys chored around the neighborhood for spending money, but it was a happy, close-knit life. His mother taught Len how to handle a gun (he is still a skilled trap-shooter), and tutored him in his studies so expertly that he skipped to the third grade a month after he entered school...
...news conference Benson emphasized that there will be no cotton dumping. The Commodity Credit Corp. has sold through bids the last of a million bales of lower-grade cotton under a special program announced last year. Bids far below the world market price are refused. The CCC will follow the same sales technique with the 7,000,000 bales of more desirable upland cotton; later it may also dispose of another 6,900,000 bales held against loans. Cotton exports, 2,750,000 bales this year, will be upped gradually to a hoped-for 5,000,000 bales a year...
Iowa has, however, a program which attempts to eliminate these inadequacies. By administering IQ tests from first grade on, and comparing scores with classroom achievements, the educators can discover the student who is unmotivated. While IQ tests are very imperfect measures of ability, they can show who has ability and is not working...
Though processing low-grade ore costs up to $30 per ton, the even quality of the pellets hikes blast-furnace output as much as 20%, and produces better pig iron. An even bigger advantage of low-grade iron ore is its large supply. Only five years ago steelmen were predicting that some of the nation's high-grade ore deposits would be mined out by 1970. By using its low-grade ore, the U.S. should have plenty of ore for another several hundred years...