Word: rankness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Held a special Sunday session for memorial services for the late Representative Julius Kahn of California (TIME, Dec. 29; see WOMEN). Said Finis J. Garrett, Democratic floor leader: "He will take rank among the great Jews of history and to say that is to say much...
...playwrights would not be wise. In view of other pressing and growing needs it was of the opinion that bringing the various parts of the University into excellent condition, or keeping them so, was of greater importance. Its aim has been to place every part in the first rank;--an aim that requires strenuous efforts and some limitation of objects. In short, its goal has been to do whatever is undertaken as well as it can be done, rather than undertake a larger number of things although valuable in themselves. This is a very expensive aim, but is several directions...
...Among the colleges that confine such a system to students of high rank I know of one that has about 100 who are getting the benefit of its, while the others have only some 60 or 30 in all. According to the figures compiled this year Harvard College has 1624 members of the three upper classes working with tutors. Compared with other colleges that are doing something of a similar nature this number seems colossal, and the expense is large, but it is well worth all it costs. For the group of men who have built up the system...
Yesterday's editorial entitled "King Grade" was destructive in its criticism. It deplored the present over-emphasis on the grading system; and it pointed out that as long as the College office does not recognize the tutorial work performed by a student in judging his scholastic rank, there is no motive urging him to do the reading suggested by his tutor. The result is that the tutorial system tends to lead a cramped and somewhat unhealthy existence. Once the truth of this observation becomes apparent, the way is open for constructive thought...
...room for discrimination in such a plan. "Satisfactory" will be reported only after a consideration of all factors by the tutors. Nor have classifications the discouraging rigidity of an alphabetical grade system. In time, when the present overemphasis on course grades becomes a memory only a student's scholastic rank will rest simply upon a report of "satisfactory" or "unsatisfactory" on both his course and his tutorial work. The absurd preoccupation with delicately shaded course grades which now descends like a plague on the College at examination periods will them be a horror of the past. Some system of judging...