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Aside from these two the squad sheet includes the name of no one who has ranked above Freshman or Jayvee grade in previous years. There are the versatile Tommy Bilodeau and the promising Dick Walsh, the leading hurlers from the ex-Freshman unit. Then Frank Wood, best of the Jayvees last season, together with his former teammates, Martin, Victor, George Tittmann, and Johnny Campana have all swung into Varsity possibilities...
...necessary to meet the final examinations and the recently-adopted comprehensive examinations are left unmentioned in the report. Not too much can be expected in the way of reform if the remark, made by a professor in the Law School recently that the "dawn of intelligence commences with the grade of 67" is typical of the attitude of the faculty...
Obviously disappointed, he approached the venerable professor, laid the paper on the desk, and respectfully asked an explanation of the wretched grade, hinting that an 'A-plus' would have been much more satisfactory...
...Kindergarten and first-grade pupils, unable to read, are started on comic strips, lured on by such teasers as "Wouldn't you like to read the funnies' yourself without waiting for some one to read...
...seventh-grade history class wrote, edited, hand-printed a newspaper made up from the big news stories of the Revolutionary War. Headlines: DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE IS SIGNED; WASHINGTON CAPTURES PRINCETON; CORNWALLIS SURRENDERS AT YORKTOWN. A geography class made a great map of the world, pinned the day's news stories on their points of origin...