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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...marking system. Sargent Kennedy, the Registrar, and Henry S. Dyer, the College's statistician, have been appointed along with other officials to a committee which will make recommendations for revising grading procedure. One of the problems they should consider is the matter of letter grades and their relations to rank list standing...
Dunster has shot up and Winthrop has slid down among freshman preferences since last year. Except for that, the rank list is almost exactly the same...
...even her warmest admirers, who liked her liveliness, would credit her with overwhelming charm or notable wit. But ambassadors, Senators and Cabinet officers come at her beck. In a city where a hostess' success can be scored like points in a cribbage game by counting up the rank of her guests, Perle Mesta outscores them all. Unlike her predecessors, Perle Mesta won her position not by prestige and not alone by wealth. She won by 303 electoral votes -those that elected Harry Truman...
...Shoes (J. Arthur Rank; Eagle Lion...
Then came World War I. J. P. Marquand saw action, rose to the rank of captain, but (though he later recalled it effectively in So Little Time) the war roused in him no Hemingway impulses to write about it. "Of course I got frightened to death on a number of occasions and I saw a lot of people get killed, but I don't think it did very much...