Word: grades
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three and a half months after Captain William D. Brown had run the battleship Missouri aground at 15 knots in the familiar waters of Chesapeake Bay, a Navy court-martial meted out his punishment. Captain Brown, 47, was dropped back 250 numbers in his grade, thus putting him that many rungs lower on the promotion list. Captain Brown's sentence had been reduced from 300 numbers by the reviewing admiral and the case would get further review. But practically, as far as any further advancement went, Captain Brown had himself run hard aground...
...National Education Association scanned the horizon last week and announced that 1) not enough college and normal-school students are preparing for jobs as grade-school teachers; 2) the shortage in grade-school teachers will get worse before it gets better...
...been a wonderful, strenuous summer, and 13-year-old Birdsall Sweet was just going into the last half of the eighth grade in Beacon, N.Y. But in September, husky, athletic Birdsall suddenly fell ill. After five days he was admitted to a hospital in Poughkeepsie. Like many another youngster in the epidemic year of 1931, Birdsall Sweet had polio...
Classics concentrators are nearly all contented with their field. Most of them are honors candidates, so a C is practically considered a flunking grade. Marks below C are given only when a student severely neglects his work...
Honors candidates must make and stay on at least third dean's list in order to get tutorial instruction. They must have had three years of high school Latin, two years of high school Greek, or acquire a grade of B or over in any term of Latin 1-2 here. Eight full, or sixteen half, courses must be included in their plan of study, of which three only may be in related fields...