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...cradle of pro football. Football mad, the Massillon high-school committeemen gave little Brownie free rein with the job of football coach eleven years ago. He knew what to do with it. He gathered together a staff, got them jobs as physical-education instructors in Massillon's grade schools. By the time Massillon's kids got to high school, they had learned fundamentals the way Brown wanted them taught...
...private citizen, least of all a newspaper publisher, has ever before been decorated twice by the Mexican Government. First to make the grade is the Laredo (Texas) Times's Publisher William Prescott Allen, a collateral descendant of the historian William Prescott (The Conquest of Mexico). Fortnight ago he got the Order of the Aztec Eagle (Sixth Class),† plus a medal never before awarded to a civilian, Mexican or otherwise: the Military Order of Merit (Second Class...
...matter of fact, they never stop going to classes, so that they can be proficient in more than one subject. Then they go through another period when they grade papers--but their work is checked through by the more experience girls...
This seemed to break the ice, and so he gained confidence. "I'm just here to clear up some rumors that have been floating around the B School. How much time do you spending grading a report?" An old-timer volunteered the information: "About one-half hour each, with a little more for the good ones. And incidentally, there is very little correlation between the grade and the time devoted to writing the report; of course there are some exceptions to that," she remarked, recalling a two and one-quarter page work she had once corrected...
...real pain is not centered in the marking system as such, but in the Business School's whole examination policy. As it is now, except for one course on Managerial Reports, the final exam mark and the course grade are usually one and the same. There is some attempt to count class recitation, but the professors themselves admit this is slightly hopeless. The classes are so large and the material so vast that very few students get called on more than twice a term. Labs and homework are nothing more than borderline factors. Consequently, the student goes into finals realizing...