Word: grading
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...half courses in chemistry are required for every one in the department. Besides the basic courses in chemistry, these courses commonly include Chemistry 20 (organic) and, for honors candidates, Chemistry 60 (physical). One course in physics, as high as Physics 11, unless Physics 1 is passed with a grade of C or higher, one course in Biology, plus Math 1 are ordinarily required for all concentrators. Non-honors candidates must take two additional courses from the fields of Physics, Biology, Chemistry, or Mathematics. Honors men must have a total of 7 1/2 courses in the previously mentioned fields...
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...
...marks the first time he has had to handle commercials (Ballantine beer and Philip Morris cigarettes). "Some words are pretty doggone hard-if I cain't pronounce them, I'll skip 'em," says Dean. "After all, as the fella said, I only went to the second grade." Helping him over the rough spots and big words is short, chipper Jack Farrell of the Yankees' publicity staff, who boasts that "I didn't get far beyond the second grade myself...
...Randolph case had just about everything a grade A murder trial needed. Handsome young Richard Randolph was a member of one of Virginia's first families, and for months before the alleged crime, people had been whispering that he was having an affair with his wife's 17-year-old sister Nancy, who lived with them. This much was clear: one night while the Randolphs and Nancy were visiting relatives, Nancy roused the household with "the unmistakable animal scream of a woman in labor." She swore she was only suffering from colic; but a week later, after...
...results of this clash of ideologies were one-sided. Though his father alternately thrashed him and treated him with puzzled affection, Eddie went his own way. He smoked, cigarettes by the time he was in the first grade, led a gang of roughnecks who specialized in swiping coal from railroad yards, and got into so many fights that he seemed to be trying to cultivate two permanent black eyes. But when his father died, he got a job as an apprentice glass blower at $3.50 a week, quit school, and tried his best to fill...