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Harvard College does not pretend to possess a perfect grading system. Essay type examinations cannot be evaluated with mathematical exactness, and the grader cannot be completely objective no matter how hard he may try to prevent his personal views from affecting the mark he assigns a blue book. But the number of complaints from students who felt they had been victimized by methods somewhat less than just indicates that unfairness in the grading system has not been reduced to the unavoidable minimum...
...been in & out of it ever since he took solemn leave of the seven pigs, two mules, 37 chickens and 13 human beings with whom he had shared an abandoned boxcar on Teche Bayou and set out, at 12, to fend for himself. He became a lumber grader, a Wells-Fargo messenger, a medicine-show spieler in "Tincup, Miss.", a silo builder in Montana, a potato digger in Idaho, a sheepherder in Colorado, before he again settled down in lumber...
Carmen, billed as "a boilesk voishin," was written and directed by 21-year-old Corporal Fred Wiener, who also plays the title role. Wiener claims to have beaten Billy Rose to the punch . . . for he first did a burlesque version of the opera as an 8th grader at Portage Path School in Akron, Ohio...
...Wichita, an airplane-manufacturing center, the Chamber of Commerce also saw red. Kansas' Representative Cliff Hope complained bitterly to OWI's Elmer Davis about his "presumably high-priced author." Said Hope: a fifth-grader would know better...
...which purport to achieve practically the same object. Then, on the 600-odd pages that follow, he lists and notates the 14,571 words occurring three or more times in any one grade. They begin with a, which occurred 14,830 times in the 353,874 first-grader words which were studied, thus placing it in the "first one hundred of the first five hundred of the first one thousand" most frequently used words in that grade. (In the second grade, a occurred 18,571 times, etc., etc.) They end with zoological, which occurs only five times...