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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Will you furnish me with list of names of your Life or Perpetual Subscribers? They would make excellent prospects for insurance. JAMES JELKE Insurance-of-all-kinds Passaic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 17, 1929 | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

...Monday morning the only grades ever made public in the Harvard Law School, the marks for all members of the graduating class, will be posted on the bulletin board in Austin Hall. The names are published in the form of a rank list...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAW SCHOOL RANK LIST OUT MONDAY FOR CLASS OF 1929 | 6/15/1929 | See Source »

...become a prize to be obtained usually by a man who does not need it badly. A student who comes here and has his way paid by thrifty parents to the extent that he need not work at all outside of school is able to make the Dean's List and live in the highest of bourgeois comfort. But what of the man who must earn his way without the aid from home? He carries one or sometimes two jobs on the side, rushes from his work to his books, and from his books to his exams. He never...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE AWARDING OF SCHOLARSHIPS | 6/13/1929 | See Source »

Should scholarships be such a gamble? Is it just that the man who works outside a thousand hours a year and misses the Dean's List by the difference between a "C" plus and a "B" minus should receive nothing more than a form letter of regret, especially when his numerical average may be actually higher than that of a man on the Dean's List...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE AWARDING OF SCHOLARSHIPS | 6/13/1929 | See Source »

Translate four "B" minuses into a percentage average and beside them three "B" pluses and a "C" plus. The man who failed to make the grade has a higher general average than the actual Dean's List by five per cent. The present "System" is a false standard and should be changed or else the basis for financial awards should be changed, for at present...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE AWARDING OF SCHOLARSHIPS | 6/13/1929 | See Source »

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