Word: cs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...puts it, "A student with three Bs is often more concerned about one C than a student with three Cs is troubled by a D--and it is always easier to help...
...work, whether they are on the Dean's list or on probation," he adds. Perry feels that the bureau should be available to the whole range of College scholars in its program. "A student with three Bs is often more concerned about one C than a student with three Cs is troubled by a D--and it is always easier to help him." Perry says...
...Three Cs. Like two other famed headmasters of New England prep schools, Peabody of Groton and Coit of St. Paul's, Diman thought the English public schools were on the right tack in stressing classics, character and Christianity. (Dr. Coit, however, was too English for him: "He was such an Anglophile that he wouldn't let the students play baseball; they had to play cricket."*) He was impatient of office routine, and so worded his letters that few required answers. The hours thus saved he spent in meditation...
...Aquarium. His early records (West End Blues, etc.) were bigger hits in Europe than in the U.S. He followed them across the Atlantic in 1931. Those were the days when he blew screeching high notes that he probably could not make consistently today. When he hit 280 high Cs and then slid up into F one evening, a London theater manager begged him to cut it to 70 Cs, because the noise made him nervous while trying to count the receipts...
...public school known as Dunmere, students learn what the self-righteous Headmaster calls "the three Cs: Christianity, the cold bath and cricket." They notably fail to learn a big D: democracy. Even among themselves, these young sons of bishops and colonels and bank directors practice an exquisite snobbishness. A boy's standing depends largely on whether his "pater" has "tons of tin" and what expensive delicacies stock his "grub box." The healthy mind in a healthy body, classic goal of public schools, degenerates into a mens corrupted by smut and a corpus battered by flogging...