Word: sevenths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tests made with 124 elementary classes of second, fifth and seventh grades to compare small with large classes of pupils, showed that the large classes were practically as efficient as the small. The most benefit from small classes was derived in the lower grade -P. R. Stevenson, of Ohio State University...
...must be won three times before it can be permanently possessed, now has two legs in New Haven, one at Hanover, and another in Cambridge. The first cup awarded in this contest went to Harvard in 1921, after three successive victories. This year, the judges awarded the Crimson contestants seventh place...
...tired seventh-grouper may soon look for new reenforcement in his semestral battle against the foreclosure of probation. Although ordinary lecturers have difficulty in impressing drowsy auditors, experimenters now claim success in educating persons in their sleep. Live-wire intellectual bootleggers are, it is rumored, watching for practical developments, and with the early perfection of these methods, pocket dictaphones will be smuggled into lectures. Then the semi-annual student will buy records instead of notes; and with a gramophone at his bedside, he may take a full night's rest before his most trying examination...
...ruling of the Committee in Admission is obviously not as important as the Boston papers have made it appear to be. Apparently it affects only those candidates seeking admission under the Old Plan. With the New Plan and the first seventh arrangement in operation the sub-Freshmen coming in under the Old Plan are severely restricted in number. Yet why the committee should have adopted its present procedure not at all clear...
Resolved, that the bill, S-3674, in the opinion of the House, contravenes the first clause of the seventh section of the first article of the Constitution- and is an infringement of the privileges of the House, and that the said bill be taken from the Speaker's table and be respectfully returned to the Senate, with a message communicating this resolution...