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...Administration has at last decided to investigate the College's 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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Rank System | 3/26/1949 | See Source »

...Jack Gordon, 48, crack engine man, who worked ten years on the new Cadillac engine; Chevrolet's W. F. Armstrong, 49, a cherub-cheeked man who is nervously cheerful about his big job of staying ahead of Ford; Buick's Ivan L. Wiles, 50, a tall, greying statistician who moved up from comptroller into Red Curtice's job; Oldsmobile's Sherrod E. Skinner, 52, a dark, heavyset, prim engineer; and Pontiac's Harry J. Klingler, 59, lean, angular and eager, a bow-tied salesman who always has one more funny story up his sleeve when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The Forty-Niners | 1/24/1949 | See Source »

...Lemuel Shattuck, statistician and genealogist, wrote a report for the Massachusetts legislature that has become known as the "bible of public health in the U.S." He made 50 recommendations ranging from smoke control to pure food laws...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Not So Good | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

...Pinch. In New York, City Statistician Harold Hoffman glumly admitted that the cost of figuring out the cost of living was skyrocketing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 20, 1948 | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

What does college do for you? There are all kinds of partial answers-spoken sometimes in jest, sometimes in anger and once in a while in pride. But there have been no actuarial facts to give a statistician's picture of what the nation's 4,966,000 college graduates are like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: That College Look | 7/5/1948 | See Source »

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