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Under the present system the men who are admitted from the upper seventh of their class without exams find themselves willy nilly in Professor Hillyer's course. Beginning with the Class of 1940 these men may be exempted by passing a two-hour exam with a grade of 75 on the Friday preceding the opening of College...
...other reform in the qualifications for entering English A effects preparatory school graduates who fail to pass the Board examination with a grade of 75. It they take a year of postgraduate work, as at Exeter or Andover, they also receive a special examination for exemption at the beginning of College...
Daughter Ishbel decided to buy and run the 300-year-old Plow Inn hard by the official country home of the Prime Minister, Chequers-a piece of Scottish shrewdness which practically ensures her a steady clientele of statesmen just below the grade of those invited to sleep or eat at Chequers, but who must go there and will be delighted to patronize Boniface Ishbel...
...biggest and most successful co-operatives in the world, Russia included, California Fruit Growers Exchange evolved from local marketing associations started in Southern California in the 1890's. Today growers belong to packing associations which grade and pack their fruit at cost. The packing associations belong to district associations, which in turn elect the 25 directors who govern the big central Exchange. No fruit except citrus is handled...
...weeks ago when a Lynn teacher ordered her third-grade class to comply with Massachusetts' new patriotism laws and salute the flag, 8-year-old Carleton Nichols Jr. swallowed hard, remained in his seat while the class rose. "Please, Miss Brooks," he blurted, ''my father says I am not to salute the Devil's emblem." Carleton Nichols Sr. explained that as Jehovah's Witnesses he and his son could not serve both Jehovah and Country. Jehovah's Witnesses, otherwise known as the International Bible Students Association, count 2,500,000 followers in 34 nations...