Word: marked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...minds for its emasculation of the tutorial system, when it was voted to set up what has come to be known as the seven weeks' rule. This rule, which is in effect today, requires that all undergraduates taking regular undergraduate courses must be tested and given a mid-term mark before the end of the seventh week of every term. Although in some cases a paper may count as the seven weeks' grade in the over whelming majority of instances the mark is based on the results of an hour exam. The rule was established because the Faculty felt that...
...century, and highly organized cram courses flourished. By 1936 Wolff's, Parker-Cramer, and the establishment of E. Gordon Parker '96 had achieved leadership in their field and were busily stuffing College mailboxes with their literature. "Tute school" advertising stressed respectability and the scientific approach. A high-water mark of a sort was reached by Wolff's in a display ad that pictured a cap and gowned senior under the headline, "Diploma by Harvard--Tutoring by Wolff...
...middle class living in suburbs "the bedrooms of Boston" --outside the municipal limits where they have neither votes nor interest in reform, and with the working class content in its slums. Boston lacks the seed of initiative to overcome its inertia. In other cities a Joseph Pulitzer or a Mark Eldridge has crusaded through the newspapers and found something dynamic in the community to complement its editorials. In Boston, how ever, the press takes its lead from the community, and Boston must rest in its circle torpor...
...Jayvee record: 8 Medford High 4 4 Newton High 2 8 Wellesley High 2 6 Tufts (Varsity)4 10 Medford High 2 4 G.B.I.All Stars 4 13 Yale (Jayvees) 3 The Freshman record: 4 Rindge Tech 3 5 Belmont Hill 2 5 Framingham High 1 5 St. Mark's 1 6 Arlington High 5 3 Cambridge High and Latin 4 3 Noble and Greenough 2 4 St. Paul's 6 3 Andover 0 5 Dartmouth (Freshmen) 2 9 New Preparatory 2 2 Yale (Freshmen...
Receipts stood at the $20,535 mark late last night as the Food Relief Committee decided to appeal for a second time to 1515 faculty members who have as yet failed to respond to a mailed request dispatched early in the campaign...