Word: grade
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...concentration system is used in connection with one industry, as for instance, cotton goods manufacture, the greatest percentage of laborers is found to be employed on the lowest class of labor. When applied to all industries the concentration system shows the weight of numbers to be on a higher grade of labor. This form of table is now used in the United States, in Federal and State census; and also in England and various continental countries. It does not eliminate the use of the "average" which many statisticians distrust; but the average becomes valuable when used over a term...
...student is admitted to English 30 unless he has taken or is taking English 10, as no time can be given in 30 to technical elocution. A student may also take English 18 and the second half of English 30 the same year, provided he attains the grade C in the first half of 18, and has taken or is taking...
...Freshman rowing at the Weld opened yesterday with two eight-oared crews, one four-oared crew, and several substitutes out. All the men who had rowed before were put in one boat, but no further attempt was made to grade the men. A. O. Stevens '97 coached from the "John Harvard" and D. D. Evans '01 from a single...
...tried this season, with the change of having a few regular coaches, instead of a larger number of graduates, who would necessarily be irregular in their attendance. The schedule was materially changed by having nearly all the games easy up to May 12, and after that playing a higher grade of teams. As a result, the team has played much more consistent ball than did last year's, and has shown steady development. Although weakened by the absence of their captain in several games, the men have learned to play well together and to use their heads in games. They...
...school law. This law provided that each municipality should organize its own school system, thus making one hundred and thirty one different systems in the island. To show the nature of the course of study under this law. Logarithms were prescribed as a regular course in the fifth grade of primary schools. Third year primary pupils were expected to study physics, chemistry and meteorology...