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Sophomores aiming at a position on the CRIMSON business board will have a chance to make the grade during the last fall competition, which begins at 7 o'clock tomorrow...
...first step in solving the dilemma, the management announced that the 72 men who had received a grade of 72 or below in a scale ranging from 70 to 82 should not expect to sing in any concert this year. It was hinted that this might be the initial measure toward the eventual separation of the club into upper and lower groups...
Largest single purchaser of textbooks in the U. S., Texas buys books for all elementary schoolchildren in the State, spends some $2,000,000 a year. Its "adoption" of a book means it will buy that book exclusively for five years. Of seventh-grade histories, it was estimated, Texas would purchase some $234,000 worth all told...
...this particular prize, two publishers began to prepare a year ago. Harcourt printed a revised edition of its best seventh-grade history. Row, Peterson entered the lists with Building Our Nation. For twelve months Harcourt's young agent, P. K. Burney, a former high-school principal, drove furiously night and day over Texas' vast distances, covered 50,000 miles, wore out one car and bought another. Like the two agents of Row, Peterson, Paul Baker and Raymond Franklin, Agent Burney visited teachers, principals, superintendents and members of the State board to win friends for himself and his book...
Thrice the board balloted on seventh-grade history. Then into the lobby where waited some 75 agents strode dark, rawboned President Sanderford and blond State School Superintendent L. A. Woods. Superintendent Woods began to make a speech. "Read us the adoptions," grimly cried the bookmen. Slowly the superintendent read them off. For seventh-grade history pupils: Row, Peterson's Building Our Nation...