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Thus Joseph Mason Reeves, native of Tampico, Ill. first displayed gallantry in Naval action. Four years later he was a lieutenant, junior grade, aboard the Oregon when under forced draft that famed warship made her record run from San Francisco around Cape Horn to arrive just in time for the Battle of Santiago. For "eminent and conspicuous conduct in battle" he was advanced four numbers in rank...
...master the intricacies of accounting, 23% ranged in academic ability between the average seventh-grader and the high school junior. To the study of electrical engineering, architecture and chemical engineering, only 20% of the Minnesota aspirants had brought high-school training. More than one-sixth had not finished grade school. Considerably less than half of the would-be advertising men, lawyers, executives had finished high school...
...declares: "There are always a number of able and ambitious students who will do work of honor quality without the need of stimulation; the important thing is to stir up the marginal group of 15 to 20 percent who are capable of achieving something more than a gentleman's grade...
...Club, asked a dozen assorted bankers, psychologists, admen and businessmen to lunch. After lunch, Mr. Stout presented each of his guests with a booklet containing 100 exceedingly personal questions which were designed to foster sharp self-appraisal, shame the questionee to better behavior. Each answer carried with it a grade, and the final total of plus and minus ratings located the individual in society. Some questions...
...fooled by the independent location of the Board of Education's dingy old headquarters on Park Avenue at 59th Street some three miles north of City Hall. Brought to New York at the age of four, Harold George Campbell climbed the public school ladder rung by rung: pupil, grade-school teacher, high-school teacher, principal, associate superintendent. He has long been a close personal friend and ally of the Board of Education's Democratic President George Joseph Ryan. Democratic Superintendent O'Shea has often been pleased to call him "my right arm." Accepting the general estimate...