Word: sevenths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speech: Simplify marking systems so that parents can understand. Another speech: Do not classify children into groups, into "mutt classes," "dumbbells," "morons;" "low I. Q.'s" (Intelligence Quotient). "Incalculable harm may be done by giving children paralyzing inferiority complexes." Another speech: Since the advent of the "junior high school" (seventh to tenth grades), the fourth and fifth grades have been a "dumping ground" for inferior teachers, the best teachers being concentrated in kindergarten work and in the new junior-high department...
...colleges are not to relapse into institutions operated for the benefit of a single class, the way must be kept open for able recruits from the public schools. By admitting free from examination men in the ranking seventh of their graduating class, Harvard has done much to preserve this necessary contact. It remains for the high schools to enforce cultural standards which furnish adequate preparation for college work...
...baseline. With a cat-cunning step that seemed a little weary, a little slow, she wove from side to side, forehand, backhand, stroking hard, deftly?but not so hard, not so deftly as a moment before. Lenglen took the next three games. Wills took the seventh, another deuce game. Lenglen evened the score. Wills took another game. She was hitting her service harder now. The handsome, impassive Greek mask of her face was weary drawn. Lenglen evened the score again, Wills took the odd game?and then occurred that curiously dramatic incident which gave all the U. S. sporting sheets...
...might be able to beat, after a gallant defense, an American champion, U. S. tennis-followers smiled softly over their lemonades, ginger ales and ice waters when they thought of the debacle that awaited the colors of France in the national indoor tournament about to be played in the Seventh Regiment Armory, Manhattan. Leaping Jean Borotra, heavy-lidded Réné LaCoste, and brisk Jaques Brugnon, nicknamed by an unoriginal pressman "The Three Musketeers," would face, if they came through the early rounds, William T. Tilden, Vincent Richards and Francis T. Hunter. Optimism could accord these foreign swashbucklers...
...innovation this year in connection with the seventh annual triangular meet will be a luncheon for the members of the three teams at the Varsity Club on Saturday...