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...very low-grade cloud that has no silver lining. It is a very inferior issue that cannot be put to political purposes over a period of years. Prohibition is not such. Governor Pinchot, whose head hives a very busy Presidential bee, is fully aware of this fact. Being a Republican, if he wants to be President in 1925 he must defeat Calvin Coolidge for the nomination in the next Republican National Convention. To defeat Mr. Coolidge he must have an issue, and with the President's tenacious silence an issue is difficult to find. But Mr. Pinchot is resourceful...
Abolition of the eighth grade...
Parents, pupils, teachers, usually agree upon the desirability of seven years instead of eight for the period of elementary and secondary school training. In some localities the eighth grade has been abolished. The new system is called "74 schooling" as opposed...
...result of Professo Kirsopp Lake's recent experiment in allowing his students in English 35a a course in the Old Testament, to choose between two methods of grading, 56 men out of the 168 enrolled, decided to be graded on the final examination mark only, according to statistics given out Saturday. Two lists were prepared, one of men wishing all the tests included in the final grade and the other of men wishing to be marked solely on the final examination...
...college year with E. P. Nelson 5E.S. at president. The fraternity was founded in 1885 at Lehigh University to "foster a spirit of liberal culture in the Engineering Schools of America and to mark in a fitting manner those who have conferred honors upon their college by a high grade of scholarship as undergraduates or by other attainments as alumni...